Food web structure in a near-pristine mangrove area of the Australian Wet Tropics

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 597-607

  Abrantes, Kátya ^a   Sheaves, Marcus ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Deluge Inlet. 146.053 E, 18.258 S; estuary; fish; food webs; Hinchinbrook Channel; mangroves; North Queensland; stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIETARY OVERLAP; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANGROVE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DELUGE INLET; HINCHINBROOK CHANNEL; QUEENSLAND;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 64949167330     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.02.021     Document Type: Article

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