Top-down effects on intertidal mussel populations: Assessing two predator guilds in a South African marine protected area

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 411, Issue , 2010, Pages 149-159

  Plass Johnson, Jeremiah G ^a   McQuaid, Christopher D ^a   Porri, Francesca ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Intertidal; Marine protected areas; MPA; Mussels; Predator exclusion experiment; South Africa; Top down regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; GUILD STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; JUVENILE; MARINE PARK; MORTALITY; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROCKY SHORE; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77955916584     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08681     Document Type: Article

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