Contributions of primary organic matter sources to macroinvertebrate production in an intertidal salt marsh (Scirpus triqueter) ecosystem

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 334, Issue , 2007, Pages 131-143

  Kang, Chang Keun ^a   Eun, Jung Choy ^a   Paik, Sang Kyu ^b   Hyun, Je Park ^a   Lee, Kun Seop ^a   An, Soonmo ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Food source; Macroinvertebrate; Microphytobenthos; Salt marsh; Scirpus triqueter; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRITION; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALTMARSH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; NAKDONG ESTUARY; NAKDONG RIVER; PUSAN [SOUTH KOREA]; SOUTH KOREA;

ALGAE; ANGUSTASSIMINEA CASTANEA; ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CORBICULA; HEDISTE JAPONICA; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; ILYOPLAX PUSILLA; INVERTEBRATA; LATERNULA MARILINA; PARANTHURA; SCHOENOPLECTUS TRIQUETER;

EID: 34247500416     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps334131     Document Type: Article

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