Predicting abundance-body mass relationships in benthic infaunal communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 289-292

  Dinmore, T A ^a   Jennings, S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance body mass relationships; Benthic invertebrates; Energetic equivalence; Macroecology; Size spectra; Stable isotope analysis; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444367329     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps276289     Document Type: Article

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