Predation restricts black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) colonization at its northern range limit along Florida’s Gulf Coast

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 803, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 317-331

  Langston, Amy K ^a   Kaplan, David A ^a   Angelini, Christine ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Community reassembly; Herbivory; Predation; Sea level rise; Sesarma reticulatum; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; HERBIVORY; MANGROVE; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PROPAGULE; RANGE EXPANSION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

AVICENNIA GERMINANS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GRAPSIDAE; SESARMA RETICULATUM;

EID: 85018466838     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3197-0     Document Type: Article

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