Sea urchins mediate the availability of kelp detritus to benthic consumers

Detritus can fundamentally shape and sustain food webs, and shredders can facilitate its availability. Most of the biomass of the highly productive giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, becomes detritus that is exported or falls to the seafloor as litter. We hypothesized that sea urchins process kelp li...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 2019-07, Vol.286 (1906), p.1-8
Hauptverfasser:	Yorke, Christie E., Page, Henry M., Miller, Robert J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ecology
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