Impacts of the invasive alga Sargassum muticum on ecosystem functioning and food web structure

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2563-2576

  Salvaterra, Tânia ^a,b   Green, Dannielle S ^a   Crowe, Tasman P ^a   O'Gorman, Eoin J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottom up control; Ecological networks; Ecosystem process rates; Generalist; Invasive species; Macroalgal communities; Robustness; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROALGA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM MUTICUM;

EID: 84885652298     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0473-4     Document Type: Article

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