Food web analysis in two permanently open temperate estuaries: Consequences of saltmarsh loss?

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 286-304

  Svensson, Carl J ^a   Hyndes, Glenn A ^b   Lavery, Paul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clearing; Detritus; Estuarine food webs; Fringing vegetation; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ESTUARIES; ISOTOPES; VEGETATION;

DETRITUS; ESTUARINE FOOD WEBS; FRINGING VEGETATION; STABLE ISOTOPES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; STABLE ISOTOPE;

DETRITUS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SELECTION; FOOD WEB; SALTMARSH; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COPEPOD; DETRITUS; DETRITUS FEEDER; ESTUARY; FISH; FOOD WEB; INVERTEBRATE; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SALT MARSH; SEAGRASS; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; CRUSTACEA; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROPODA; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; LESCHENAULT INLET; NORNALUP ESTUARY; WALPOLE ESTUARY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34547192133     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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