Trophic cascades in seagrass meadows depend on mesograzer variation in feeding rates, predation susceptibility, and abundance

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 456, Issue , 2012, Pages 29-42

  Best, Rebecca J ^a   Stachowicz, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphipod; Eelgrass; Epiphytes; Overgrowth

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FISH; GRAZING; INVERTEBRATE; MEADOW; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAGRASS; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; CAPRELLIDA; INVERTEBRATA; PISCES; ULVA;

EID: 84862161966     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09678     Document Type: Article

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