Non-equilibrium processes structuring benthic bacterial communities following deposit feeding by a sea cucumber

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 478, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-126

  Rafalowski, Stacey ^a   Plante, Craig ^b  

^a Lowcountry Earth Force   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Disturbance; Isostichopus badionotus; Panama; Recolonization; Subtidal; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DNA; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SAMPLING;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HOLOTHUROIDEA; ISTICHOPUS BADIONOTUS;

EID: 84875528541     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10162     Document Type: Article

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