The relative importance of amphipod and gastropod grazers in Posidonia sinuosa meadows

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 183-202

  Jernakoff, Peter ^a   Nielsen, John ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Kinhill Engineers   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epiphytes; Grazing; Periphyton; Posidonia

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GASTROPOD; GRASS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT;

POSIDONIA SINUOSA; AMPHIPODA; GASTROPODA; POSIDONIACEAE; THALMOTIA CONICA;

EPIPHYTE; EPIPHYTES; GRAZING; PERIPHYTON; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SEAGRASS MEADOWS;

EID: 0030618186     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(96)01112-6     Document Type: Article

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