Changes in biodiversity and environmental stressors influence community structure of an experimental eelgrass Zostera marina system

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 470, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-54

  Blake, Rachael E ^a   Duffy, J Emmett ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Eelgrass; Grazers; Stressors

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROALGA; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEAGRASS; SESSILE SPECIES; STABILIZATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84870806239     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10006     Document Type: Article

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