Beyond competition: The stress-gradient hypothesis tested in plant-herbivore interactions

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2368-2374

  Pedro, Daleo ^a   Oscar, Iribarne ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

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

Author keywords

Burrowing crabs; Ecosystem engineers; Environmental gradients; Herbivory; Neohelice (Chasmagnathus) granulata; Positive interactions; Southwestern Atlantic salt marshes (Argentina); Spartina; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ORGANISM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRAB; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; GRASS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SALTMARSH;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SEDIMENT; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BRACHYURA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POACEAE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WETLANDS;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CHASMAGNATHUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SPARTINA;

EID: 69449083620     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2330.1     Document Type: Article

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