When seasnake meets seabird: Ecosystem engineering, facilitation and competition

Austral Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 544-549

  Lane, Amanda M ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Ecosystem engineering; Laticauda; Puffinus; Shelter site

Indexed keywords

BURROW; BURROWING ORGANISM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FACILITATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; SEABIRD; SHELTER; SNAKE; SYMPATRY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AVES; LATICAUDA; LATICAUDA LATICAUDATA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS; PUFFINUS PACIFICUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 79960832346     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02185.x     Document Type: Article

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