A spatially explicit approach to trophic interactions and landscape formation: Patchiness in small-scale variability of grazing effects along an intertidal stress gradient

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 416-430

  Díaz, Eliecer Rodrigo ^a,b   McQuaid, Christopher David ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Grazing intensity across the shore; Log response ratio; Plant herbivore interactions; Semivariogram; Small scale; Spatial heterogeneity; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIOMASS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRAZING PRESSURE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PATCHINESS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; ROCKY SHORE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; ZONATION;

ALGAE;

EID: 79951572638     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01779.x     Document Type: Article

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