Response of zoobenthic communities to changing eutrophication in the northern Baltic Sea

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 580, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-108

  Kotta, Jonne ^a   Lauringson, Velda ^a,b   Kotta, Ilmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic; Eutrophication; Front; Functional diversity; Hypoxia; Macrozoobenthos

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; EUTROPHICATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; HYPOXIA; MACROZOOBENTHOS;

NUTRIENTS;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEPOSIT FEEDER; EUTROPHICATION; FILTER FEEDER; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GUILD; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OCEANIC FRONT; ORGANIC NITROGEN; WATER QUALITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33947526701     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0462-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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