Keystone intimidators in the intertidal: Non-consumptive effects of a keystone sea star regulate feeding and growth in whelks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 450, Issue , 2012, Pages 107-114

  Gosnell, J Stephen ^a   Gaines, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Keystone; Mytilus; Non consumptive effects; Nucella; Pisaster; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECHINODERM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NONLINEARITY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SNAIL; SURVEY;

ASTEROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; NUCELLA; NUCELLA EMARGINATA; PISASTER; PISASTER OCHRACEUS;

EID: 84859236920     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09567     Document Type: Article

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