Animal-plant-microbe interactions: Direct and indirect effects of swan foraging behaviour modulate methane cycling in temperate shallow wetlands

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 233-244

  Bodelier, Paul L E ^a   Stomp, Maayke ^a,b   Santamaria, Luis ^a,c   Klaassen, Marcel ^a   Laanbroek, Hendrikus J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bewick's swans; Fennel pondweed; Methane cycling; Multitrophic interactions; Shallow lakes

Indexed keywords

METHANE;

BIOTURBATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORY; MACROPHYTE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TUBER; WATERFOWL; WEED; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DUCKS AND GEESE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; METHANE; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; ANSERIFORMES; ARCHAEA; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS BEWICKII; FOENICULUM VULGARE; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 33747035083     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0445-9     Document Type: Article

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