Differences in tolerance of pondweeds and charophytes to vertebrate herbivores in a shallow Baltic estuary

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-128

  Hidding, B ^a   Bakker, E S ^a   Keuper, F ^a,b   de Boer, T ^a   de Vries, P P ^a   Nolet, B A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Apparent competition; Bird exclosure; Compensatory growth; Macrophyte community; Nutrient loading; Palatability; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; CHAROPHYTE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; MACROPHYTE; MONOCOTYLEDON; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PALATABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHALLOW WATER; TUBER; TURBIDITY; VERTEBRATE; WATERFOWL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ANATIDAE; AVES; CHARA; CHARA ASPERA; CHARACEAE; CHARALES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS CYGNUS; NAJAS MARINA; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954865827     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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