Wave action modifies the effects of consumer diversity and warming on algal assemblages

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1020-1029

  Mrowicki, Robert J ^a   O'Connor, Nessa E ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Climate change; Disturbance; Environmental context; Facilitation; Interaction strength; Multiple stressors; Rocky intertidal; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; GASTROPOD; MACROALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ROCK POOL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL; WARMING; WAVE ACTION;

ALGAE; GASTROPODA; GIBBULA UMBILICALIS; LITTORINA LITTOREA; PATELLA VULGATA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FOOD CHAIN; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HERBIVORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAWEED; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBIVORY; SEAWEED; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84929206623     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0577.1     Document Type: Article

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