Cascading effects from predator removal depend on resource availability in a benthic food web

Marine Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Sieben, Katrin ^a   Rippen, Anneke D ^a   Eriksson, Britas Klemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; BENTHOS; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; INVERTEBRATE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PREDATOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

AMPHIPODA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78651427537     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1567-5     Document Type: Article

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