Broad-scale geographic variation in the organization of rocky intertidal communities in the Gulf of Maine

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 579-597

  Bryson, Elizabeth S ^a   Trussell, Geoffrey C ^a   Ewanchuk, Patrick J ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal oceanography; Community organization; Competition; Disturbance; Gulf of Maine; Herbivory; Predation; Recruitment; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDATION; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE; NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84913548704     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1106.1     Document Type: Article

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