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- Title
DO ALTERNATE STABLE COMMUNITY STATES EXIST IN THE GULF OF MAINE ROCKY INTERTIDAL ZONE?: REPLY.
- Authors
Bertness, Mark D.; Trussell, Geoffrey C.; Ewanchuk, Patrick J.; Silliman, Brian R.
- Abstract
Mussel beds and seaweed canopies on Gulf of Maine rocky shores represent stochastic alternative community states. In the systems studied, community recovery from disturbance is highly deterministic and strongly driven by consumer control. Those mussel bed and algal-canopy sites were chosen that were as similar as could be found in terms of physical conditions. Sites with extreme physical conditions were avoided to maximize detecting the presence of stochastic alternative states. The mussel bed and algal-canopy sites chosen, however, did indeed differ in abiotic parameters and that is part of the problem.
- Subjects
FUCUS gardneri; MUSSELS; INTERTIDAL ecology; SEASHORE ecology; MARINE algae; ALGAL populations
- Publication
Ecology, 2004, Vol 85, Issue 4, p1165
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/03-3136