Invertebrate grazing during the regenerative phase affects the ultimate structure of macrophyte communities

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1246-1255

  Elger, Arnaud ^a,b   Willby, Nigel J ^c   Cabello Martinez, Mónica ^b  

^a Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle   (France)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clonality; Herbivory; Macrophyte assemblages; Propagule bank; Seedlings

Indexed keywords

ASTACOIDEA; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; LYMNAEIDAE; NYMPHAEACEAE;

EID: 65549090500     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02171.x     Document Type: Article

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