Long-term and large-scale variability in productivity of the tellinid bivalve Macoma balthica on Wadden Sea tidal flats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 337, Issue , 2007, Pages 117-134

  Dekker, R ^a   Beukema, J J ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annual recruitment; Long term data; Seasonal growth; Secondary production; Tidal flats

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; GROWTH RATE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; TIDAL FLAT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BIVALVIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACOMA BALTHICA; TELLINIDAE;

EID: 34249684393     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps337117     Document Type: Article

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