Effects of mussels on competitively inferior species: Competitive exclusion to facilitation

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 293-298

  Miyamoto, Yasushi ^a,b   Noda, Takashi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algae; Competitive exclusion; Competitively dominant species; Ecosystem engineer; Facilitation; Mussel; Net mussel effect

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FACILITATION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; CHLOROPHYTA; MONOSTROMA; MONOSTROMA ANGICAVA; MYTILIDAE; PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA YEZOENSIS; RHODOPHYTA; SEPTIFER VIRGATUS;

EID: 4444283370     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps276293     Document Type: Article

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