Coupling between subtidal prey and consumers along a mesoscale upwelling gradient in the Galápagos Islands

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-177

  Witman, Jon D ^a   Brandt, Margarita ^a   Smith, Franz ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barnacles; Benthic pelagic coupling; Bottom up, top down; Community ecology; Effects; Gal pagos islands; Macroecology; Megabalanus spp; Oceanographic forcing; Recruitment; Rocky subtidal; Topography; Whelks

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; INTERNAL WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PREY LOCATION; PROPAGULE; SNAIL; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UPWELLING;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

HEXAPLEX; MEGABALANUS; THORACICA;

EID: 77649229296     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1922.1     Document Type: Article

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