How two large-scale 'experiments' illustrate the importance of enrichment and fishery for the functioning of the Wadden Sea Ecosystem

Senckenbergiana Maritima

Volumn 29, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 37-44

  Beukema, J J ^a   Cadee G C ^a   Dekker, R ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass; Cerastoderma; Eutrophication; Fishery; Limiting factors; Macrozoobenthos; Mytilus; Phytoplankton; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FISHERY; LIMITING FACTOR; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOBENTHOS;

WADDEN SEA;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; AVES; BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA; HAEMATOPODIDAE; MYTILUS;

EID: 0032535839     PISSN: 0080889X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03043941     Document Type: Article

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