Consumer depletion alters seagrass resistance to an invasive macroalga.
Few field studies have investigated how changes at one trophic level can affect the invasibility of other trophic levels. We examined the hypothesis that the spread of an introduced alga in disturbed seagrass beds with degraded canopies depends on the depletion of large consumers. We mimicked the de...
Main Authors: | Sarah Caronni, Chiara Calabretti, Maria Anna Delaria, Giuseppe Bernardi, Augusto Navone, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Pieraugusto Panzalis, Giulia Ceccherelli |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115858 |
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