Habitat conversion and species loss alters the composition of carbon sources to benthic communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 411, Issue , 2010, Pages 127-136

  McLeod, Rebecca J ^a   Wing, Stephen R ^a   Davis, Jean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compound specific 13C; Fatty acid biomarkers; Food web; Notolabrus celidotus; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BENTHOS; BIOMARKER; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF LITTER; ORGANIC MATTER; OTOLITH; PERCIFORM; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

DOUBTFUL SOUND; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; NOTOLABRUS CELIDOTUS; PISCES;

EID: 77955911195     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08677     Document Type: Article

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