Tidal migration influences the zonation of grazing snails (Turbo smaragdus) in a mangrove-seagrass estuary, Northern New Zealand

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 731-736

  Alfaro, Andrea C ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRAZING; MANGROVE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOBILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SNAIL; TIDAL CYCLE;

AUSTRALASIA; MATAPOURI ESTUARY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; NORTHLAND;

ALGAE; GASTROPODA;

EID: 33751101650     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02786524     Document Type: Article

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