Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on shoalgrass Halodule wrightii and its epiphytes: Results of a field experiment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 326, Issue , 2006, Pages 145-156

  Heck Jr , K L ^a,b   Valentine, J F ^a,b   Pennock, J R ^c   Chaplin, G ^d   Spitzer, P M ^a  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herbivory; Nutrients; Pinfish; Seagrass; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COASTAL ZONE; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; FINFISH; GRAZING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEAGRASS;

BIG LAGOON; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; PENSACOLA BEACH; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; HALODULE WRIGHTII; LAGODON RHOMBOIDES;

EID: 33845912973     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps326145     Document Type: Article

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