Facilitation research in marine systems: State of the art, emerging patterns and insights for future developments

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1121-1130

  Bulleri, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Associational defence; Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Environmental stress; Facilitation; Intertidal; Marine; Review; Species interactions; Stress gradient hypothesis; Subtidal

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LIFE HISTORY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 70349913592     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01567.x     Document Type: Article

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