A pilot trophic model for Golfo Dulce, a fjord-like tropical embayment, Costa Rica

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-231

  Wolff, Matthias ^a   Hartmann, Hans Julian ^b   Koch, Volker ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass budget; Costa Rica; Ecosystem structure; Energy flow; Tropical estuary

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001633073     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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