Grazing effects of blue mussel Mytilus edulis on the pelagic food web under different turbulence conditions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 339, Issue , 2007, Pages 199-213

  Maar, Marie ^a,b   Nielsen, Torkel Gissel ^a   Bolding, Karsten ^b   Burchard, Hans ^b,c   Visser, André W ^d  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b Bolding and Burchard ApS   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Escape responses; Filtration; Mytilus edulis; Turbulence; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIVALVE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FILTER FEEDER; FJORD; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BIVALVIA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 34347374829     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps339199     Document Type: Article

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