Thresholds and multiple community states in marine fouling communities: Integrating natural history with management strategies

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 413, Issue , 2010, Pages 277-289

  Osman, Richard W ^a   Munguia, Pablo ^a,d   Whitlatch, Robert B ^b   Zajac, Roman N ^c   Hamilton, John ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Bryozoans; Climate change; Coastal development; Fouling community; Invasive species; Mussels; Threshold dynamics

Indexed keywords

BRYOZOAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DOMINANCE; EPIFAUNA; FOULING; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLLUSC; OPEN OCEAN; POLYP; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

CAPE COD; LONG ISLAND SOUND; MASSACHUSETTS; NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BRYOZOA; DIPLOSOMA LISTERIANUM;

EID: 77957363951     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08673     Document Type: Article

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