Extinction and ecosystem function in the marine benthos

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5699, 2004, Pages 1177-1180

  Solan, Martin ^a   Cardinale, Bradley J ^b   Downing, Amy L ^c   Engelhardt, Katharina A M ^d   Ruesink, Jennifer L ^e   Srivastava, Diane S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; SEDIMENTS;

DIVERSITY LOSS; MARINE INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; SEDIMENT BIOTURBATION;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

BENTHOS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXTINCTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOTURBATION; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHINODERMATA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; IRELAND; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SEAWATER; STATISTICS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 8444227404     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103960     Document Type: Article

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