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Phase-Shift Dynamics of Sea Urchin Overgrazing on Nutrified Reefs

Shifts from productive kelp beds to impoverished sea urchin barrens occur globally and represent a wholesale change to the ecology of sub-tidal temperate reefs. Although the theory of shifts between alternative stable states is well advanced, there are few field studies detailing the dynamics of the...

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Autores principales: Kriegisch, Nina, Reeves, Simon, Johnson, Craig R., Ling, Scott D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5193397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28030596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168333