Ecosystem Engineering by Plants on Wave-Exposed Intertidal Flats Is Governed by Relationships between Effect and Response Traits

• Maike Heuner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maike Heuner, Alexandra Silinski

  * E-mail: heuner@bafg.de

  Affiliations Department Ecological Interactions, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany, Geoinformation in Environmental Planning Lab, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Alexandra Silinski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maike Heuner, Alexandra Silinski

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

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• Jonas Schoelynck,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

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• Tjeerd J. Bouma,

  Affiliation Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, The Netherlands

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• Sara Puijalon,

  Affiliation UMR 5023 LEHNA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, ENTPE, Villeurbanne, France

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• Peter Troch,

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Elmar Fuchs,

  Affiliation Department Ecological Interactions, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany

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• Boris Schröder,

  Affiliations Institute of Geoecology, Environmental Systems Analysis, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany

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• Uwe Schröder,

  Affiliation Department Vegetation Studies & Landscape Management, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany

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• Patrick Meire,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

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• Stijn Temmerman

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

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