A specialist detritivore links Spartina alterniflora to salt marsh food webs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 364, Issue , 2008, Pages 87-95

  Parker, John D ^a,b   Montoya, Joseph P ^a   Hay, Mark E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detritus; Food webs; Spartina alterniflora; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; DETRITIVORY; DIET; FOOD WEB; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; SENESCENCE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

AMPHIPODA; FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS PALUSTRIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 50149091080     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07504     Document Type: Article

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