Food and habitat partitioning in grazing snails (Turbo smaragdus), Northern New Zealand

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 431-440

  Alfaro, Andrea C ^a   Dewas, Severine E ^a   Thomas, François ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BACTERIUM; FATTY ACID; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FOOD CONSUMPTION; LABORATORY METHOD; MACROPHYTE; MANGROVE; NICHE PARTITIONING; ROCKY SHORE; SNAIL; STOMACH CONTENT;

AUCKLAND; AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIWERA ESTUARY;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETOMORPHA; CHLOROPHYTA; GASTROPODA; HORMOSIRA BANKSII; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 34548043954     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02819389     Document Type: Article

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