Stable isotope analysis of food sources for salt marsh snails

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 223, Issue , 2001, Pages 167-177

  Kurata, Kengo ^a   Minami, Hiroshi ^a   Kikuchi, Eisuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Assiminea; Food source; Gastropod; Salt marsh; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

DIET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SALTMARSH; SNAIL;

HONSHU; JAPAN; NANAKITA ESTUARY;

ANGUSTASSIMINEA CASTANEA; ANIMALIA; ASSIMINEA; ASSIMINEA JAPONICA; ASSIMINEIDAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CASTANEA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; JAPONICA; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0035965862     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps223167     Document Type: Article

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