Seasonal variation in carbon sources of mesograzers and small predators in an eelgrass community: Stable isotope and fatty acid analyses

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 431, Issue , 2011, Pages 69-82

  Jaschinski, Sybill ^a   Brepohl, Daniela C ^a,b   Sommer, Ulrich ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b Forschungszentrum Terramare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gammarus; Grazing; Idotea; Littorina; Nutrition; Rissoa; Seagrass; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; BIOMASS; EPIPHYTE; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; ISOPOD; NITROGEN; OMNIVORY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RED ALGA; SEAGRASS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ALGAE; CRUSTACEA; DELESSERIA SANGUINEA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS OCEANICUS; GASTROPODA; IDOTEA; IDOTEA BALTICA; LITTORINA; RHODOPHYTA; RISSOA; RISSOA MEMBRANACEA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 79958288796     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09143     Document Type: Article

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