Nutrient impacts on epifaunal density and species composition in a subtropical seagrass bed

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 569, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 437-447

  Gil, Melissa ^a   Armitage, Anna R ^a   Fourqurean, James W ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct and indirect; Epiphytes; Halodule wrightii; Structure; Thalassia testudinum; Trophic

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; NUTRITION; PHOSPHORUS;

DIRECT AND INDIRECT; EPIPHYTES; HALODULE WRIGHTII; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIFAUNA; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BRACHYURAN; CARIDEAN; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GAMMARIDEA; HALODULE WRIGHTII; HOLOTHUROIDEA; ISOPODA; TESTUDINES; THALASSIA; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 33746743665     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0147-7     Document Type: Article

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