Formation and propagation of feeding fronts in benthic marine invertebrates: A modeling approach

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3150-3162

  Lauzon Guay, Jean Sébastien ^a,c   Scheibling, Robert E ^b   Barbeau, Myriam A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Chemotaxis; Ecological modeling; Feeding fronts; Kinesis; Oreaster reticulatus; Sea star; Sea urchin; Spatial pattern; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BENTHOS; CHEMOTAXIS; ECHINODERM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEEDING GROUND; GRAZING; INVERTEBRATE; KELP FOREST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROPAGATION (HORTICULTURE); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASTEROIDEA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; OREASTER RETICULATUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 60949091539     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0643.1     Document Type: Article

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