Fiddler crabs facilitate Spartina alterniflora growth, mitigating periwinkle overgrazing of marsh habitat

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2709-2718

  Gittman, Rachel K ^a   Keller, Danielle A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up forcing; Fiddler crab bioturbation; Habitat conversion; Herbivory; Indirect effects; Littoraria irrorata periwinkles; Marsh cordgrass, primary production; Sediment anoxia; Spartina alterniflora marsh, North Carolina, USA; Stress amelioration; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; BURROW; CRAB; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLORA; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MUDFLAT; OVERGRAZING; SALTMARSH;

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; VINCA;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OXYGEN; POACEAE; VINCA;

EID: 84892142024     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0152.1     Document Type: Article

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