Ecological Feedbacks Stabilize a Turf-Dominated Ecosystem At the Southern Extent of Kelp Forests in the Northwest Atlantic
Temperate marine ecosystems globally are undergoing regime shifts from dominance by habitat-forming kelps to dominance by opportunistic algal turfs. While the environmental drivers of shifts to turf are generally well-documented, the feedback mechanisms that stabilize novel turf-dominated ecosystems...
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Montclair State University Digital Commons
2019
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Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/biology-facpubs/271 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43536-5Final https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/context/biology-facpubs/article/1271/viewcontent/Ecological_feedbacks_stabilize_a_turf_dominated.pdf |