Facilitation and Feedbacks in Seagrass Communities : Testing the Role and Context-Dependency of Ecosystem Engineers

• Main Author: Meysick, Lukas
• Other Authors: Associate professor Melanie Bishop, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Associate professor Christoffer Boström, Åbo Akademi, Åbo, Professor Alf Norkko, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Faculty of Science and Engineering
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Åbo Akademi - Åbo Akademi University 2020
• Subjects: 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; Marine Ecology; Leda; Crassostrea gigas
• Online Access: https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/178509

In physically unstable habitats such as coastal soft sediments, facilitative interactions are essential for structuring associated ecological communities. Here, habitat amelioration by ecosystem engineers such as seagrasses, salt marshes or bivalves can often increase the realized niche of associate...