Tidal marshes as energy sources for commercially important nektonic organisms: Stable isotope analysis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 352, Issue , 2007, Pages 89-99

  Quan, Weimin ^a   Fu, Cuizhang ^a   Jin, Binsong ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Chen, Jiakuan ^a   Wu, Jihua ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fish; Food web; Nursery habitat; Phragmites australis; Plant invasion; Prawn; Spartina alterniflora; Yangtze River estuary

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CRUSTACEAN; ENERGY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD WEB; GRASS; NEKTON; NURSERY GROUND; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALTMARSH; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

EXOPALAEMON; EXOPALAEMON CARINICAUDA; LATEOLABRAX MACULATUS; LIZA HAEMATOCHEILUS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SCIRPUS; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 38949165635     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07160     Document Type: Article

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