Cross-habitat impacts of species decline: Response of estuarine sediment communities to changing detrital resources

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 517-525

  Bishop, Melanie Jane ^a   Coleman, Melinda A ^b   Kelaher, Brendan P ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detritus; Extinction; Macroinvertebrates; Phyllospora comosa; Spatial subsidy

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ABUNDANCE; BROWN ALGA; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FOOD WEB; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MACROALGA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; ORGANIC MATTER; SHALLOW WATER; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BROWN ALGA; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SEA; SEASON; SEDIMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ALGAE, BROWN; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; SEASONS;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

ALGAE; ECKLONIA RADIATA; PHYLLOSPORA COMOSA; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM SP.;

EID: 77952320542     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1555-y     Document Type: Article

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