Coastal food web structure, carbon storage, and nitrogen retention regulated by consumer pressure and nutrient loading

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 339-349

  Worm, Boris ^a,b   Lotze, Heike K ^a   Sommer, Ulrich ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; GRAZING PRESSURE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT;

BALTIC SEA;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; ISOPODA;

EID: 0034016584     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0339     Document Type: Article

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