Biogeographic variability in ecosystem engineering: Patterns in the abundance and behavior of the tube-building polychaete Diopatra cuprea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 447, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Berke, Sarah K ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic habitats; Biogenic habitat structure; Biogeographic comparison; Facilitation; Infauna; Intertidal macroalgae; Intertidal sediments; Northwest Atlantic

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BENTHOS; BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FACILITATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; MORTALITY; PH; POLYCHAETE; PREDATION RISK; REFUGIUM; SUBSTRATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

ALGAE; DIOPATRA CUPREA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84857260513     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09568     Document Type: Article

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