Body size as a predictor of species loss effect on ecosystem functioning

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Séguin, Annie ^a   Harvey, Éric ^b,c   Archambault, Philippe ^a   Nozais, Christian ^b   Gravel, Dominique ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BARNACLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIVALVE; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; GASTROPOD; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA URCHIN; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVIA; BODY SIZE; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GASTROPODA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEA URCHINS; THORACICA;

EID: 84898463223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04616     Document Type: Article

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