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An experimental test of the capacity of food web interactions (fish-epiphytes-seagrasses) to offset the negative consequences of eutrophication on seagrass communities
| Title: | An experimental test of the capacity of food web interactions (fish-epiphytes-seagrasses) to offset the negative consequences of eutrophication on seagrass communities. |
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| Name(s): |
Gacia, E., creator Littler, Mark M., creator Littler, Diane S., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1999 | |
| Publisher: | Elsevier | |
| Extent: | 11 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3174494 (digitool), FADT3174494 (IID), fau:5824 (fedora), 10.1006/ecss.1999.0477 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
A mechanism of competition between epiphytes and seagrasses potentially modulated by grazers was studied in a high-nutrient Thalassia testudinum meadow in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida, U.S.A.). The effects of fish grazing on epiphytes, and likely enhancing T. testudinum growth, was tested through an exclusion experiment. Twelve (2×2m) independent experimental plots were selected within a shallow monospecific bed to which three randomized treatments (exclusion fences, open fences and controls) with four replicates each were assigned. The final published version of this manuscript is available at www.elsevier.com/locate/ecss and may be cited as: Gacia, E., Littler, M. M., & Littler, D. S. (1999). An experimental test of the capacity of food web interactions (fish-epiphytes-seagrasses) to offset the negative consequences of eutrophication on seagrass communities. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 48(6), 757-766. doi:10.1006/ecss.1999.0477 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1207. |
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| Subject(s): |
Seagrasses Epiphytes Fishes Grazing Algae |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174494 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ecss.1999.0477 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1999 Elsevier | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
