Nutrient enrichment and food web composition affect ecosystem metabolism in an experimental seagrass habitat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Spivak, Amanda C ^a,b   Canuel, Elizabeth A ^a   Duffy, J Emmett ^a   Richardson, J Paul ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; GRAZER; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEAGRASS; SECONDARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES HABITAT; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FILTRATION; FOOD; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; ZOSTERACEAE;

CRUSTACEA;

SEA WATER; WATER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FILTRATION; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SEAWATER; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; ZOSTERACEAE;

EID: 70449372656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007473     Document Type: Article

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