Whole-community mutualism: Associated invertebrates facilitate a dominant habitat-forming seaweed

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2211-2219

  Bracken, Matthew E S ^a,b,d   Gonzalez Dorantes, Cirse A ^c   Stachowicz, John J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Cladophora columbiana; Facilitation; Foundation species; Mutualism; Nitrogen; Positive interactions; Rocky intertidal communities; Seaweeds

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; DOMINANCE; INVERTEBRATE; MUTUALISM; NITROGEN; ROCK POOL; ROCKY SHORE; SEAWEED;

CLADOPHORA; CLADOPHORA COLUMBIANA; INVERTEBRATA;

NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; SEAWEED; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEAWEED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38449110212     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0881.1     Document Type: Article

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