Consumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1347-1358

  Rasher, Douglas B ^a   Hoey, Andrew S ^b   Hay, Mark E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Functional diversity; Herbivory; Marine protected area; Phase shift; Plant animal interactions

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; CORAL REEF; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; MACROALGA; MARINE PARK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; FISH; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEAWEED;

ANIMALS; CORAL REEFS; FISHES; HERBIVORY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEAWEED;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; PISCES; RHODOPHYTA; SCARIDAE;

EID: 84877659333     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0389.1     Document Type: Article

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