Canopy interactions and physical stress gradients in subtidal communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 677-686

  Bennett, Scott ^a   Wernberg, Thomas ^a   de Bettignies, Thibaut ^a   Kendrick, Gary A ^a   Anderson, Robert J ^b,c   Bolton, John J ^c   Rodgers, Kirsten L ^d   Shears, Nick T ^d   Leclerc, Jean Charles ^e,f   Lévêque, Laurent ^e,f   Davoult, Dominique ^e,f   Christie, Hartvig C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Marine and Coastal Management   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Competition; Facilitation; Kelp; Seaweed; Species interactions; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CANOPY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIGHT EFFECT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEAWEED; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; KELP; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; KELP; LIGHT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84931572107     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12446     Document Type: Article

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