Environmental stress, facilitation, competition, and coexistence

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2719-2731

  Hart, Simon P ^a,c   Marshall, Dustin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bugula neritina; Competition; Competition coefficients; Environmental stress; Facilitation; Filter feeding bryozoans; Marine invertebrates; Multispecies communities; Ricker model; Stress gradient hypothesis; Watersipora subtorquata

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRYOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BRYOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84892183275     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0804.1     Document Type: Article

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