Top-down and bottom-up controls on sediment organic matter composition in an experimental seagrass ecosystem

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2595-2607

  Spivak, Amanda C ^a   Canuel, Elizabeth A ^a   Duffy, J Emmett ^a   Richardson, J Paul ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD CHAIN; GRASS; HERBIVORE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC MATTER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEAGRASS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 36749011827     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.6.2595     Document Type: Article

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