Influence of Corophium volutator and Hydrobia ulvae on intertidal benthic diatom assemblages under different nutrient and temperature regimes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 245, Issue , 2002, Pages 47-59

  Hagerthey, Scot E ^a,b   Defew, Emma C ^a   Paterson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic diatoms; Corophium volutator; Estuaries; Grazing; Hydrobia ulvae; Intertidal mudflats; Nutrients; Temperature

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIATOM; GRAZING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT; PHYTOBENTHOS; TEMPERATURE;

NETHERLANDS; OOSTERSCHELDE; WESTERSCHELDE;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; HYDROBIA; HYDROBIA ULVAE; HYDROBIIDAE; NAVICULA;

EID: 0037132739     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps245047     Document Type: Article

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