Ecological Archives E089-009-A1

Ecological Archives E089–009–A1

**Helmut Hillebrand. 2008. Grazing regulates the spatial variability of periphyton biomass. Ecology 89:165–173.**

Appendix A. List of studies included in the meta-analysis including citation and information on the habitat, the consumer group, the experimental units, the substratum the algae grew on, and the number of experiments obtained from each publication.

TABLE A1. List of studies included in the meta-analysis including citation and information on the habitat, the consumer group, the experimental units, the substratum the algae grew on, and the number of experiments obtained from each publication. Double entries in a variable indicate that experiments in one study differed, e.g., in the consumers they used.

AUTHORS	HABITAT	CONSUMER GROUP	EXP UNITS	SUBSTRATE	# EXP
Anderson 1995	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures/enclosures	hard	2
Armitage and Fong 2004	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	sediment	12
Barbee 2005	lotic	diverse	exclosures	hard	1
Bergey and Resh 1994	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	1
Biggs and Lowe 1994	lotic	diverse	exclosures	hard	4
Brönmark et al. 1991	lentic	Gastropoda/Amphibia	enclosures	hard	9
Carpenter 1981	coastal	Echinodermata	enclosures	hard	2
Castenholtz 1961	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	10
Cattaneo 1983	lentic	diverse	enclosures	plant	1
Dickman 1968	lentic	Amphibia	enclosures	hard	1
Dos Santos and De Freitas 1986	lentic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	4
Downing 2005	lentic	diverse	enclosures	hard	3
Dudley 1992	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	plant	3
Duffy and Harvilicz 2001	coastal	Crustacea	enclosures	plant	4
Duffy 1990	coastal	Crustacea	enclosures	plant	8
Duffy et al. 1997	coastal	diverse	exclosures	sediment	4
Duffy et al. 2001	coastal	Crustacea	enclosures	plant	7
Duffy et al. 2003	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	plant	8
Duffy et al. 2005	coastal	Crustacea	enclosures	plant	5
Feminella and Resh 1990	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	4
Feminella and Resh 1991	lotic	diverse	exclosures	hard	4
Feminella et al. 1989	lotic	diverse	exclosures	hard	2
Flecker et al. 2002	lotic	fish	exclosures	hard	4
Fong et al. 2000	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	plant	2
Frost et al. 2002	lentic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	3
Fuller et al. 1998	lotic	diverse	exclosures	hard	2
Gamfeldt et al., unpublished data	coastal	Gastropoda/Crustacea	enclosures	hard	11
Gawne 1995	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	4
Gelwick and Matthews 1992	lotic	fish	exclosures	hard	1
Gerdol and Hughes 1994	coastal	Crustacea	removal	sediment	4
Graham and Vinebrooke 1998	lentic	diverse	exclosures	hard	2
Gresens 1995	lentic	Gastropoda/Insecta	enclosures	hard	8
Harley 2002	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	4
Harrison and Hildrew 2001	lentic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	1
Hart 1987	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	3
Hart 1992	lotic	Crustacea	exclosures	hard	2
Hart et al. 1991	lotic	Gastropoda/Insecta	exclosures	hard	2
Hawkins and Furnish 1987	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	1
Hill and Harvey 1990	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	1
Hill and Knight 1987	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	3
Hill et al. 1992	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	2
Hill et al. 1995	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	2
Hill et al. 1997	lotic	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	2
Hillebrand and Kahlert 2001	lentic/coastal	diverse	exclosures	hard	22
Hillebrand and Kahlert 2002	lentic/coastal	diverse	exclosures	sediment	12
Hillebrand 2002	coastal	diverse	exclosures	hard	16
Hillebrand et al. 2000	coastal	diverse	exclosures	hard	9
Holomuzki and Hemphill 1996	lotic	Gastropoda/Amphibia	enclosures	hard	6
Holomuzki 1998	lentic	Amphibia	enclosures	hard	2
Hootsmans et al. 1993	coastal	Crustacea	exclosures	hard	3
Howard and Short 1986	coastal	diverse	enclosures	plant	1
Huchette et al. 2000	lotic	fish	enclosures	hard	1
Hunter and Russell Hunter 1983	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	1
Jacoby 1985	lotic	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	1
Jacoby 1987	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	2
Jernakoff and Nielsen 1997	coastal	Gastropoda/Crustacea	enclosures	plant	6
Jordan and Lake 1996	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	1
Kaehler and Froneman 2002	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	1
Keuskamp 2004	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	plant	1
Kiffney and Richardson 2001	lentic	Amphibia	enclosures	hard	2
Kjeldsen 1996	lotic	Gastropoda	removal	hard	2
Kohler 1992	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	4
Kuhara et al. 2000	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	2
Kupferberg 1997	lotic	Amphibia	enclosures	hard	3
Lamberti and Resh 1983	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	3
Lamberti et al. 1987	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	7
Lamberti et al. 1992	lotic	Amphibia	exclosures	hard	6
Lamberti et al. 1992	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	16
Lever and Valiela 2005	coastal	diverse	exclosures	sediment	6
Loman 2001	lentic	Amphibia	exclosures	hard	17
Mak and Williams 1999	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	3
Mallory and Richardson 2005	lotic	Amphibia	enclosures	hard	24
March et al. 2002	lotic	Crustacea	exclosures	hard	3
Marks and Lowe 1989	lentic	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	2
Matthiessen et al. 2007	coastal	Crustacea/Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	11
McAuliffe 1983	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	1
McClatchie et al. 1982	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	sediment	2
McCormick and Stevenson 1989	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	12
McCormick and Stevenson 1991	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	12
McCormick 1990	lotic	Crustacea/Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	3
McCormick 1994	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	16
McIntyre et al. 2006	lentic	diverse	exclosures	hard	4
Miller 2000, unpublished data	lentic	fish	exclosures	hard	4
Miyasaka et al. 2003	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	2
Murphy 1984	lotic	diverse	exclosures	hard	1
Nicotri 1977	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	4
Opsahl et al. 2003	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	2
Peters et al. 2007	lentic	diverse	exclosures	hard	12
Peterson and Boulton 1999	lentic	Amphibia	enclosures	hard	2
Peterson et al. 1993	lotic	diverse	removal	hard	4
Peterson et al. 2001	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	8
Philippart 1995	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	plant	1
Poff and Ward 1995	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	6
Poff et al. 2003	lotic	diverse	enclosures	hard	3
Power and Matthews 1983	lotic	fish	removal	hard	1
Power 1990	lotic	fish	enclosures	hard	2
Pringle 1996	lentic	Crustacea	enclosures	hard	6
Pringle et al. 1993	lotic	Crustacea	enclosures	hard	3
Ranvestel et al. 2004	lotic	Amphibia	exclosures	hard	1
Rezanka and Hershey 2003	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	1
Rosemond 1993	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	4
Rosemond et al. 1993	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	4
Rosemond et al. 2000	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	8
Ruetz et al. 2004	lotic	Insecta	exclosures	hard	1
Salomon 2001, unpublished data	lentic	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	2
Schanz et al. 2002	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	plant	2
Smith et al. 1996	coastal	Crustacea/Annelida	exclosures	sediment	2
Steinman 1992	lotic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	2
Stewart 1987	lentic	fish	exclosures	hard	2
Swamikannu and Hoagland 1989	lentic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	3
Taylor et al. 2002	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	3
Thompson et al. 2004	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	2
Tomas et al. 2005	coastal	diverse	exclosures	plant	4
Tuchman and Stevenson 1991	lentic	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	2
Underwood 1984	coastal	Gastropoda	enclosures	hard	3
Underwood et al. 1992	lentic	Gastropoda	enclosures	plant	3
Uthicke 2001	coastal	Echinodermata	enclosures	sediment	2
Villanueva and Modenutti 2004	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	12
Villanueva et al. 2004	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	4
Wellnitz and Rader 2003	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	4
Wellnitz and Ward 2000	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	12
Wellnitz et al. 1996	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	6
Winterbourn and Fegley 1989	lotic	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	17
Winterbourn 1990	lotic	Insecta	removal	hard	6
Wootton et al. 1996b	coastal	Gastropoda	exclosures	hard	8
Wootton et al. 1996a	lotic	Insecta	enclosures	hard	2
Yasuno et al. 1985	lotic	diverse	removal	hard	2

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