The Southwest Atlantic intertidal burrowing crab Neohelice granulata modifies nutrient loads of phreatic waters entering coastal area

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 300-306

  Fanjul, Eugenia ^a,b   Grela, María A ^a,b   Canepuccia, Alejandro ^a,b   Iribarne, Oscar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

bioturbation; Chasmagnathus granulatus; Neohelice granulata; nutrient flux; phreatic water; SW Atlantic estuaries

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; BURROW; BURROWING; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRAB; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHREATIC ZONE; SALTMARSH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); JUNCUS; SARCOCORNIA; SPARTINA;

EID: 45649084415     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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