Expanding traditional views on suspension feeders - Quantifying their role as ecosystem engineers

Oikos

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 441-443

  Wotton, Roger S ^a   Malmqvist, Björn ^b   Leonardsson, Kjell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FILTER FEEDER;

EID: 0038174915     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12399.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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