Crab herbivory regulates plant facilitative and competitive processes in Argentinean marshes

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 155-164

  Alberti, Juan ^a,b   Escapa, Mauricio ^a,b   Iribarne, Oscar ^a,b   Silliman, Brian ^c   Bertness, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Inst Argentino de Oceanografia Consejo Nac de Invest Cientificas Y Tecnicas ^*  (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chasmagnathus granulatus; Competition; Facilitation; Herbivory threshold; Sarcocornia perennis; Southwest Atlantic; Spartina densiflora

Indexed keywords

CRAB; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARSH; PATCH SIZE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SEAGRASS; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIOMASS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; WETLANDS;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SARCOCORNIA PERENNIS; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 40449091623     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0045.1     Document Type: Article

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