Potential for landscape-scale positive interactions among tropical marine ecosystems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 503, Issue , 2014, Pages 289-303

  Gillis, L G ^a   Bouma, T J ^a   Jones, C G ^b   Van Katwijk, M M ^c   Nagelkerken, I ^d   Jeuken, C J L ^e   Herman, P M J ^a   Ziegler, A D ^f  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Algivores; Coral reefs; Ecosystem engineering; Hydrodynamics; Mangrove forests; Nutrients; Seagrass beds; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONNECTIVITY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MANGROVE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TROPICAL REGION; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 84901193480     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10716     Document Type: Review

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