Small macrobenthic invertebrates affect the mortality and growth of early post-settlement sea urchins and sea stars in subtidal cobble habitat

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 431, Issue , 2011, Pages 173-182

  Jennings, Lindsay B ^a   Hunt, Heather L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asterias spp; Competition; Early post settlement; Growth; Mortality; Natural declines; Predation; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; ECHINODERM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; KELP FOREST; MACROBENTHOS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ASTERIAS; ASTEROIDEA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 79958281958     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09131     Document Type: Article

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