Now an empty mudflat: Past and present benthic abundances in the western Dutch Wadden Sea

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-58

  Kraan, Casper ^a   Dekinga, Anne ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dutch Wadden Sea; Historical richness; Human impact; Intertidal; Macrozoobenthos

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; EUTROPHICATION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MOLLUSC; MUDFLAT; POLYCHAETE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

CERASTODERMA EDULE; CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS EDULIS; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 79951557831     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-010-0200-9     Document Type: Article

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