Decadal shifts in a salt marsh macroinfaunal community in response to sustained long-term experimental nutrient enrichment

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 63-81

  Sardá, Rafael ^a,b   Valiela, Ivan ^a   Foreman, Ken ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Macroinfaunal communities; Nutrient enrichment; Salt marsh creeks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAUNA; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; UNITED STATES;

BENTHIC INFAUNA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FERTILIZATION; INFAUNA; LONG-TERM STUDY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; SALT MARSHES; SALTMARSH;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT SIPPEWISSETT MARSH;

MONOPYLEPHORUS EVERTUS; OLIGOCHAETA; PARANAIS LITORALIS; STREBLOSPIO BENEDICTI;

EID: 0030274238     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(96)02600-7     Document Type: Article

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