Classic paradigms in a novel environment: Inserting food web and productivity lessons from rocky shores and saltmarshes into biogenic reef restoration

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1314-1325

  Fodrie, F Joel ^a   Rodriguez, Antonio B ^a   Baillie, Christopher J ^b   Brodeur, Michelle C ^a   Coleman, Sara E ^a   Gittman, Rachel K ^a   Keller, Danielle A ^a   Kenworthy, Matthew D ^a   Poray, Abigail K ^a   Ridge, Justin T ^a   Theuerkauf, Ethan J ^a   Lindquist, Niels L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Growth; Inundation productivity gradient; Landscape ecology; Predation; Restoration ecology; Rocky intertidal ecology; Shellfish reefs; Vertical zonation

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; OSTREIDAE; SPARTINA;

EID: 84925293126     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12276     Document Type: Article

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