Effect of natural populations of burrowing thalassinidean shrimp on sediment irrigation, benthic metabolism, nutrient fluxes and denitrification

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 268, Issue , 2004, Pages 205-220

  Webb, Arthur P ^a   Eyre, Bradley D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Burrowing macrofauna; Denitrification; Irrigation; Sediment biogeochemistry; Trypaea australiensis

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOTURBATION; BURROWING ORGANISM; DENITRIFICATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; METABOLISM;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); THALASSINIDEA; TRYPAEA AUSTRALIENSIS;

EID: 1842526038     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps268205     Document Type: Article

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