Community-wide ramifications of an associational refuge on shallow rocky reefs

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2819-2828

  Levenbach, Stuart ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Office of Management and Budget   (United States)

Author keywords

Associational defense; Caging experiment; Competition; Corynactis californica; Facilitation; Herbivory; Indirect effect; Kelp; Macroalgae; Sea urchin; Surfperch; Tubicolous amphipod

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; BENTHOS; ECHINODERM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERBIVORY; KELP FOREST; MACROALGA; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REEF; REFUGE; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANEMONE; CORYNACTIS; CORYNACTIS CALIFORNICA; ECHINOIDEA; EMBIOTOCIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA;

ALGA; ANEMONE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PERCH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SEA URCHIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; ANEMONE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; PERCHES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEA URCHINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149340803     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0656.1     Document Type: Article

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