Substrate mediates consumer control of salt marsh cordgrass on Cape Cod, New England

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2108-2117

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

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Cod; Consumer pressure; Crab herbivory; Marsh die off; New England; Peat substrate; Salt marsh productivity; Sesarma reticulatum; Spartina alterniflora; Top down control; USA

Indexed keywords

CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERBIVORY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PEAT; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRODUCTIVITY; SALTMARSH;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SOIL; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; NEW ENGLAND; POACEAE; SOIL; WETLANDS;

CAPE COD; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 68149120583     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1396.1     Document Type: Article

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