Interactions among foundation species and their consequences for community organization, biodiversity, and conservation

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 782-789

  Angelini, Christine ^a   Altieri, Andrew H ^b   Silliman, Brian R ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biodiversity; biogenic habitat; ecosystem engineer; positive interaction; stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054689245     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.10.8     Document Type: Article

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