Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: maintenance of invertebrate assemblages amid intertidal stress gradients
Journal: Oikos
Year: 2024

Species that form complex biogenic structures may increase niche space for many others and are assumed to be paramount for whole‐assemblage stability and ecosystem functioning. Because they often ameliorate physical conditions, ecosystem engineering species are also predicted to become more important with environmental stress. Testing this hypothesis, however, has proven difficult because isolating facilitation effects along the entire stress gradient is challenging. Here we addressed motile inv