Report
A Three-Stage Symbiosis Forms the Foundation of Seagrass Ecosystems
- Tjisse van der Heide1,*,
- Laura L. Govers2,
- Jimmy de Fouw3,
- Han Olff1,
- Matthijs van der Geest3,
- Marieke M. van Katwijk2,
- Theunis Piersma3,4,
- Johan van de Koppel5,
- Brian R. Silliman6,
- Alfons J. P. Smolders7,
- Jan A. van Gils3
- 1Community and Conservation Ecology Group, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies (CEES), University of Groningen, Post Office Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, Netherlands.
- 2Department of Environmental Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Science, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- 3Department of Marine Ecology, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Post Office Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.
- 4Animal Ecology Group, CEES, University of Groningen, Post Office Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, Netherlands.
- 5Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Post Office Box 140, 4400 AC Yerseke, Netherlands.
- 6Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
- 7Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Science, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- ↵*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: t.van.der.heide{at}rug.nl
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Science 15 Jun 2012:
Vol. 336, Issue 6087, pp. 1432-1434
DOI: 10.1126/science.1219973
