Reciprocal subsidies and food web pathways leading to chum salmon fry in a temperate marine-terrestrial ecotone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Romanuk, Tamara N ^a   Levings, Colin D ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Fisheries and Oceans Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; CARBON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; FOOD WEB; FRY (FISH); INTERTIDAL ZONE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LITTORAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; SEASHORE; TROPHIC CASCADE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE BIOLOGY; METABOLISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

INVERTEBRATA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA;

ANIMALS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA;

EID: 77956323126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010073     Document Type: Article

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