Tracing organic matter sources of estuarine tidal flat nematodes with stable carbon isotopes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 234, Issue , 2002, Pages 127-137

  Moens, Tom ^a   Luyten, Caroline ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^a   Herman, Peter M J ^a   Vincx, Magda ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Food web; Intertidal estuarine 13C; Microphytobenthos; Nematodes; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; NEMATODE; ORGANIC MATTER; TIDAL FLAT;

ALGAE; NEMATODA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 0037014113     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps234127     Document Type: Article

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