Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9484021 Journal of Sea Research 2005 24 Pages PDF
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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