Relative importance of grazing and nutrient controls of macroalgal biomass in three temperate shallow estuaries

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 347-360

  Hauxwell, Jennifer ^a   Mcclelland, James ^a   Behr, Peter J ^a   Valiela, Ivan ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAY; BIOMASS; CLADOPHORA VAGABUNDA; CYMADUSA COMPTA; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RATE; IDOTEA BALTICA; MIRODEUTOPUS GRYLLOTALPA; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; ZOSTERA MARINA;

BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; CLADOPHORA VAGABUNDA; CYMADUSA COMPTA; GADUS MORHUA; GRYLLOTALPA; IDOTEA BALTICA; ISOPODA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0031708427     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352481     Document Type: Article

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