Erratum to: Abiotic stress mediates top-down and bottom-up control in a Southwestern Atlantic salt marsh (Oecologia, (2010), 163, (181-191), 10.1007/s00442-009-1504-9);Abiotic stress mediates top-down and bottom-up control in a Southwestern Atlantic salt marsh

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 181-191

  Alberti, Juan ^a,b   Casariego, Agustina Méndez ^a,b   Daleo, Pedro ^a,b   Fanjul, Eugenia ^a,b   Silliman, Brian ^c   Bertness, Mark ^d   Iribarne, Oscar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herbivory; Neohelice granulata; Nutrients; Spartina densiflora; Tidal stress gradient

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; CRAB; GRASS; HERBIVORE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MUD; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SALTMARSH; SUBSTRATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

CHASMAGNATHUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 77951022335     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2101-2     Document Type: Erratum

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