Relative importance of benthic microalgae, phytoplankton and the detritus of smooth cordgrass Spartina alternifora and the common reed Phragmites australis to brackish-marsh food webs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 200, Issue , 2000, Pages 77-91

  Wainright, Sam C ^a,e   Weinstei, Michael P ^b   Able, Kenneth W ^c   Currin, Carolyn A ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium   (United States)

^c Rutgers University   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e U S COAST GUARD ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web; Fundulus heteroclitus; Stable isotopes; 13C; 15N; 34S

Indexed keywords

EID: 5944234790     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps200077     Document Type: Article

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