Local differences in macrozoobenthic response to enhanced food supply caused by mild eutrophication in a Wadden Sea area: Food is only locally a limiting factor

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1424-1435

  Beukema, J J ^a   Cadee G C ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTROPHICATION; FOOD SUPPLY; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; ZOOBENTHOS;

WADDEN SEA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031399492     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.6.1424     Document Type: Article

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