Behavioural interactions between ecosystem engineers control community species richness

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1127-1136

  Gribben, Paul E ^a   Byers, James E ^b,c   Clements, Michael ^d   McKenzie, Louise A ^d   Steinberg, Peter D ^d   Wright, Jeffrey T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Bivalves; Ecosystem engineer; Epibiota; Facilitation cascades; Habitat forming species; Invasive species; Recruitment; Trait mediated indirect effects

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; BIVALVE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; INVASIVE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVE; CAULERPA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ARCIDAE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CAULERPA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGAE; ANADARA; ANADARA TRAPEZIA; BIVALVIA; CAULERPA; CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA;

EID: 70350070715     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01366.x     Document Type: Article

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