Dietary contribution of the microphytobenthos to infaunal deposit feeders in an estuarine mudflat in Japan

Marine Biology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 543-553

  Kanaya, Gen ^a   Takagi, Shigeto ^a   Kikuchi, Eisuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; DEPOSIT FEEDER; DIATOM; DIET; ENZYME; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROALGA; MUDFLAT; PHYTOBENTHOS; POLYCHAETE; VASCULAR PLANT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IDOURA LAGOON; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI BAY; TOHOKU;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CYATHURA MUROMIENSIS; HETEROMASTUS; MACOMA; MACROPHTHALMUS JAPONICUS; NOTOMASTUS; POLYCHAETA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 52049114904     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-1053-5     Document Type: Article

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