Facilitation and competition among foundation species of submerged macrophytes threatened by severe eutrophication and implications for restoration

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 76-80

  Hao, Beibei ^a,b   Wu, Haoping ^a,b   Shi, Qiao ^a,b   Liu, Guihua ^a   Xing, Wei ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Competition; Ecological stoichiometry; Eutrophication; Facilitation; Foundation species; Restoration; Stress gradient hypothesis; Submerged macrophyte

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY; FACILITATION; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; STRESS GRADIENT; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTE; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES RESTORATIONS;

COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FOUNDATIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION;

EUTROPHICATION;

AQUATIC PLANT; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EUTROPHICATION; FACILITATION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; POLLUTION EFFECT; STOCHASTICITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

CHINA; KUNMING; YUNNAN;

EID: 84882767910     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.07.067     Document Type: Article

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