Ecosystem engineering across environmental gradients: Implications for conservation and management

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 211-218

  Crain, Caitlin Mullan ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associational defenses; Conservation; Ecosystem engineers; Environmental stress model; Stress gradients

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644886573     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)056[0211:EEAEGI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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