Role of crab herbivory in die-off of new england salt marshes

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 672-679

  Holdredge, Christine ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^a   Altieri, Andrew H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cordgrass; Ecosystem collapse; Herbivory; Marsh die off; Salt marsh; Sesarma reticulatum; Spartina alterniflora; Top down control

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CRAB; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; MASSACHUSETTS; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WETLANDS;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SESARMA; SESARMA RETICULATUM; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 65949116605     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01137.x     Document Type: Article

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