Triggers and maintenance of multiple shifts in the state of a natural community

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 489-498

  Rassweiler, Andrew ^a   Schmitt, Russell J ^a   Holbrook, Sally J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Competition; Disturbance; Predation; State change

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; ECHINODERM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FILTER FEEDER; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MACROALGA; NATURAL RESOURCE; PERSISTENCE; PREDATOR; REEF; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SEA; SEA CUCUMBER; SEAWEED; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEA CUCUMBERS; SEAWEED; WATER MOVEMENTS;

HOLOTHUROIDEA; PACHYTHYONE RUBRA;

EID: 77956649618     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1666-5     Document Type: Article

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