Small-scale spatial variability of food partitioning between cultivated oysters and associated suspension-feeding species, as revealed by stable isotopes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 336, Issue , 2007, Pages 151-160

  Dubois, Stanislas ^a   Orvain, Francis ^a   Marin Léal, Julio César ^a   Ropert, Michel ^b   Lefebvre, Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Oysters; Sessile epibionts; Shellfish; Spatial variability; Stable isotopes; Trophic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CARBON ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEEDING; FOOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; POLYCHAETE; SEA LEVEL; SESSILE SPECIES; SHELLFISH; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ASCIDIACEA; BIVALVIA; OSTREIDAE; POLYCHAETA; SERPULIDAE; TEREBELLIDA; THORACICA;

EID: 34249942377     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps336151     Document Type: Article

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