Stability, resilience, and phase shifts in rocky subtidal communities along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-239

  Watson, Jane ^a   Estes, James A ^b  

^a VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Desmarestia spp; Enhydra lutris; Kelp demography; Macrocystis pyrifera (= integrifolia); Mosaic structure; Phase state; Pterygophora Californica; Resilience; Sa urchin; Sea otter; Strongylocentrotus franciscanus; Vriation

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECHINODERM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HABITAT MOSAIC; KELP FOREST; MARINE MAMMAL; MUSTELID; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REINTRODUCTION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

ALGAE; CARNIVORA; DESMARESTIA; ECHINOIDEA; ENHYDRA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS; LUTRINAE; MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; PTERYGOPHORA CALIFORNICA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS FRANCISCANUS;

EID: 79955513256     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0262.1     Document Type: Article

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