Facilitation on an intertidal mudflat: The effect of siphon nipping by flatfish on burying depth of the bivalve Macoma balthica

Oecologia

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 500-506

  De Goeij, Petra ^a   Luttikhuizen, Pieternella C ^a,b   Van Der Meer, Jaap ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Burying depth; Facilitation; Shorebirds; Siphon nipping; Tellinidae

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ORGANISM; DEPTH; FACILITATION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; PREDATION;

AVES; BIVALVIA; GALLIFORMES; MACOMA BALTHICA; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; TELLINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035025954     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000526     Document Type: Article

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