Ecological engineering on rocky shores: grazing, predation, nutrient availability and their influence on epifaunal communities
“Ecosystem engineers modify, create/destroy habitat and directly/indirectly modulate availability of resources to other species by causing physical state changes to biotic and abiotic materials” (Jones et al, 1994, page 1). Previous studies have analysed top-down and bottom-up relationships to deter...
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Language: | English |
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Rhodes University
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/3453 |