Consumers affect prey biomass and diversity through resource partitioning

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2468-2473

  Råberg, Sonja ^a   Kautsky, Lena ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bottom up nutrient effects; Diversity; Epiphytes; Grazers; Herbivores; Macroalgae; Microalgae; Nutrient enrichment; Top down consumer effects

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIOMASS; EPIPHYTE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; NICHE PARTITIONING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGAE;

SEA WATER;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449100557     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0263.1     Document Type: Article

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