Assessment of benthic ecosystem functioning through trophic web modelling: The example of the eastern basin of the English Channel and the Southern Bight of the North Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 72-86

  Garcia, Clément ^a,b   Chardy, Pierre ^c   Dewarumez, Jean Marie ^a,b   Dauvin, Jean Claude ^d  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

English Channel; Functional unit; North Sea; Soft bottom communities; Trophic web

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENERGY FLOW; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MACROBENTHOS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLISH CHANNEL; NORTH SEA; SOUTHERN BIGHT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79953294518     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2011.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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