Species identity, diversity and microbial carbon flow in reassembling macrobenthic communities

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 503-512

  Rossi, Francesca ^a,b   Vos, Matthijs ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD WEB; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYPOXIA; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MACROBENTHOS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHYTOBENTHOS; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 63849237033     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17112.x     Document Type: Article

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