Global patterns in the impact of marine herbivores on benthic primary producers

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 912-922

  Poore, Alistair G B ^a   Campbell, Alexandra H ^a,b   Coleman, Ross A ^c   Edgar, Graham J ^d   Jormalainen, Veijo ^e   Reynolds, Pamela L ^f   Sotka, Erik E ^g   Stachowicz, John J ^h   Taylor, Richard B ⁱ   Vanderklift, Mathew A ^j   Emmett Duffy, J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^g School of Business   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^j CSIRO   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Coral reef; Crustacean; Grazing; Herbivory; Latitudinal gradient; Macroalgae; Marine; Meta analysis; Mollusc; Plant animal interaction; Primary production; Rocky reef; Sea urchin; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; CORAL REEF; ECHINODERM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; META-ANALYSIS; MOLLUSC; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEAGRASS; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; SEA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CRUSTACEA; ECHINOIDEA; MOLLUSCA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84863422994     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01804.x     Document Type: Review

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