Reciprocal facilitation and non-linearity maintain habitat engineering on coral reefs

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 428-440

  Bozec, Yves Marie ^a,b   Yakob, Laith ^a   Bejarano, Sonia ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; COEXISTENCE; CORAL REEF; DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HABITAT CREATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SIMULATION;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SCARIDAE;

EID: 84874329260     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20576.x     Document Type: Article

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