Consequences of the sudden removal of nearly all mussels and cockles from the Dutch Wadden Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 279-289

  Beukema, J J ^a   Cadee G C ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birds; Cerastoderma; Fishery effects; Food depletion; Macrozoobenthos; Mytilus; Phytoplankton; Tidal flats

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA; HAEMATOPODIDAE; MACOMA BALTHICA; MYTILUS; CERASTODERMA EDULE; MYTILUS EDULIS;

COCKLE BED; DEPLETED STOCKS; DOMINANT SPECIES; MUSSEL BED;

WADDEN SEA;

EID: 0030513306     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1996.tb00508.x     Document Type: Article

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