Bioturbation of burrowing crabs promotes sediment turnover and carbon and nitrogen movements in an estuarine salt marsh

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 586-599

  Wang, Jin Qing ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao Dong ^a   Jiang, Li Fen ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^c   Fang, Chang Ming ^a   Chen, Jia Kuan ^a   Hara, Toshihiko ^d   Li, Bo ^a,d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF EDIBLE FUNGI   (China)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Burrowing crabs; Excavation; Salt marshes; Sediment deposition; Soil turnover; Transport of soil and nutrients

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; BURROWING ORGANISM; CRAB; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SALTMARSH; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL WATER; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WATER CONTENT;

CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 77953543457     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9342-5     Document Type: Article

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