Habitat-mediated facilitation and counteracting ecosystem engineering interactively influence ecosystem responses to disturbance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Eklöf, Johan S ^a,d,e   van der Heide, Tjisse ^a   Donadi, Serena ^a   van der Zee, Els M ^a,b   O'Hara, Robert ^c   Eriksson, Britas Klemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTURBATION; EBB TIDE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HABITAT; LUGWORM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; WORM; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HELMINTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE;

ANATIDAE; ARENICOLA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HELMINTHS; POACEAE;

EID: 79961132294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023229     Document Type: Article

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