Recruitment facilitation can drive alternative states on temperate reefs

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1763-1773

  Baskett, Marissa L ^a   Salomon, Anne K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Crustose coralline algae; Herbivory; Hysteresis; Kelp forest; Macroalgae; Recruitment facilitation; Resilience; Urchin barren

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORALLINE ALGA; ECHINODERM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FACILITATION; HERBIVORY; KELP FOREST; MACROALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REEF; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA URCHIN;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA URCHINS;

ALGAE; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 77953241374     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0515.1     Document Type: Article

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