Herbivores, tidal elevation, and species richness simultaneously mediate nitrate uptake by seaweed assemblages

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1083-1093

  Bracken, Matthew E S ^a   Jones, Emily ^b,c   Williams, Susan L ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumers; Context dependency; Diversity; Nitrate uptake; Seaweeds; Tide height

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEIGHT; HERBIVORE; NITRATE; SEAWEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEY; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 79955919177     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1374.1     Document Type: Article

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