Smothering of estuarine sandflats by terrigenous clay: The role of wind-wave disturbance and bioturbation in site-dependent macrofaunal recovery

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 234, Issue , 2002, Pages 23-41

  Norkko, Alf ^a   Thrush, Simon F ^a   Hewitt, Judi E ^a   Cummings, Vonda J ^a   Norkko, Joanna ^a   Ellis, Joanne I ^a   Funnell, Greig A ^a   Schultz, Diane ^a   MacDonald, Iain ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Estuarine disturbance; Macrofaunal recovery; New Zealand; Sedimentation; Terrestrial impacts; Wind waves

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTURBATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; RECOLONIZATION; WIND WAVE;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HELICE CRASSA; SCYLLA SERRATA;

EID: 0037014147     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps234023     Document Type: Article

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