Wasting disease regulates long-term population dynamics in a threatened seagrass

Oecologia

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-142

  Bull, James C ^a   Kenyon, Emma J ^b   Cook, Kevan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Eelgrass; Labyrinthula; Sea temperature; Wasting disease

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DIEBACK; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWING SEASON; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEADOW; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAGRASS;

ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRAMENOPILE; ZOSTERACEAE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PLANT DISEASES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRAMENOPILES; ZOSTERACEAE;

ENGLAND; ISLES OF SCILLY; UNITED KINGDOM;

LABYRINTHULA; LABYRINTHULA ZOSTERAE; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84859644098     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2187-6     Document Type: Article

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