Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9484021 | Journal of Sea Research | 2005 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
It is concluded that periwinkles can affect the settlement and success of barnacles directly through biological disturbance (i.e. surface ablation). However, although limpets may have a direct negative effect on barnacle settlement and success, at low to medium densities, limpets can positively indirectly influence the cyprid settlement and success. This effect operates at a factor greater than that afforded by the direct negative effects of periwinkles in a mixed-species treatment. These results illustrate how the indirect effects of one species on another can have a more important structuring effect than those derived from direct effects alone.
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Authors
Sebastian P. Holmes, Graham Walker, Jaap van der Meer,