Trophic cascade induced by molluscivore predator alters pore-water biogeochemistry via competitive release of prey

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1143-1152

  Van Gils, Jan A ^a   Van Der Geest, Matthijs ^a   Jansen, Erik J ^a   Govers, Laura L ^b   De Fouw, Jimmy ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Banc d'Arguin, mauritania; Bivalves (Dosinia isocardia, loripes lucinalis); Facilitation; Growth rate; Hydrogen sulfide; Interspecific competition; Predation; Predator exclosure experiment; Red Knot, Calidris canutus canutus; Seagrass beds; Top down effect

Indexed keywords

SULFIDE; WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIVALVE; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; DETRITUS; DIETARY SHIFT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIONT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; FOOD WEB; GROWTH RATE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; METABOLITE; MIXOTROPHY; POREWATER; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEAGRASS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WADER;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLLUSCA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SULFIDES; WATER;

BIVALVIA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS CANUTUS; DOSINIA; LORIPES; LORIPES LUCINALIS;

EID: 84861368173     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1282.1     Document Type: Article

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