Grazer facilitation of fungal infection and the control of plant growth in south-western Atlantic salt marshes

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 781-787

  Daleo, Pedro ^a,b   Silliman, Brian ^c   Alberti, Juan ^a,b   Escapa, Mauricio ^a,b,d   Canepuccia, Alejandro ^a,b   Peña, Nora ^a   Iribarne, Oscar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^d INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Fungal infection; Herbivory; Plant production; Salt marshes; Spartina; Top down control

Indexed keywords

CLIPPING; CRAB; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUNGI; ORA; SPARTINA;

EID: 67449163698     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01508.x     Document Type: Article

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