Depth variation in terrestrial particulate organic matter exploitation by marine coastal benthic communities off the Rhone River delta (NW Mediterranean)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 275, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-57

  Darnaude, Audrey M ^a,b   Salen Picard, Chantal ^a   Harmelin Vivien, Mireille L ^a  

^a STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal ecosystems; Flatfishes; Macrobenthos; River inputs; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPTH; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; RHONE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

ARNOGLOSSUS; ARNOGLOSSUS LATERNA; BIVALVIA; BUGLOSSIDIUM LUTEUM; CARIDEA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; PLEURONECTIFORMES; POLYCHAETA; SOLEA; SOLEA SOLEA;

EID: 4043096878     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps275047     Document Type: Article

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