Strong top-down control in Southern California kelp forest ecosystems

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5777, 2006, Pages 1230-1232

  Halpern, Benjamin S ^a   Cottenie, Karl ^a,b   Broitman, Bernardo R ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; MARINE ENGINEERING;

FISHING; FOOD WEB DYNAMICS; KELP FOREST SYSTEMS; PREDATOR ABUNDANCE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

RUNOFF;

FISHING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PREDATOR; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RUNOFF; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; FISHING; FOOD WEB; FOREST; KELP; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; TOP DOWN CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; INVERTEBRATES; KELP; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744483367     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128613     Document Type: Article

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