Species-specific impacts of grazing amphipods in an eelgrass-bed community

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 223, Issue , 2001, Pages 201-211

  Duffy, Emmett J ^a   Harvilicz, Annie M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Ampithoe longimana; Community structure; Competition; Cymadusa compta; Gammarus mucronatus; Grazing; Mesograzers; Resource limitation; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FEEDING; GRAZING; INVERTEBRATE; SEAGRASS;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; AMPITHOE; AMPITHOE LONGIMANA; ANIMALIA; CYMADUSA COMPTA; EUKARYOTA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS MUCRONATUS; HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; POLYSIPHONIA; POLYSIPHONIA HARVEYI; RHODOPHYTA; UROCHORDATA; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0035965850     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps223201     Document Type: Article

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