Predation during early post-settlement varies in importance for shaping marine sessile communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 348, Issue , 2007, Pages 85-101

  Sams, Michael A ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Bryozoan; Post settlement mortality; Predation; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BRYOZOAN; CAGE CULTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MESH SIZE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POST-SETTLEMENT PROCESS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT; SESSILE SPECIES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH AMERICA; PORT PHILLIP BAY; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BRYOZOA; DIDEMNIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 36549055046     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07012     Document Type: Article

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