Exploring the consequences of species interactions through the assembly and disassembly of food webs: A pacific-atlantic comparison

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-29

  Estes, James A ^a   Steneck, Robert S ^b   Lindberg, David R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; KELP FOREST; MACROALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PINNIPED; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84875783880     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5343/bms.2011.1122     Document Type: Review

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