Fish in Offshore Kelp Forests Affect Recruitment to Intertidal Barnacle Populations
- 23 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 235 (4787) , 479-481
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.235.4787.479
Abstract
Kelp forests along the coast of central California harbor juvenile rockfish that prey on the larvae of invertebrates from the rocky intertidal zone. This predation reduces recruitment to barnacle populations to 1/50 of the level in the absence of fish. The dynamics of the intertidal community are thus strongly coupled to the dynamics of the offshore kelp community.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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