Pattern formation at multiple spatial scales drives the resilience of mussel bed ecosystems

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Quan Xing ^a,b   Herman, Peter M J ^a   Mooij, Wolf M ^c,d   Huisman, Jef ^b   Scheffer, Marten ^d   Olff, Han ^e   Van De Koppel, Johan ^a,e  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MOLLUSC; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SELF ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BED; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GROWTH; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIVALVE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIVALVIA; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922350937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6234     Document Type: Article

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