Linking Land and Sea: Different Pathways for Marine Subsidies

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 732-744

  Mellbrand, Kajsa ^a   Lavery, Paul S ^b   Hyndes, Glenn ^b   Hambäck, Peter A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

chironomids; kelp flies; Posidonia; spider diets

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTHROPOD; AUTOTROPHY; BEACH; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; COLONIZATION; DIET; DUNE; ENERGY FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; INFLOW; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MACROPHYTE; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PREDATOR; SEAGRASS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

AUSTRALIA; BALTIC COAST [SWEDEN]; INDIAN OCEAN; SWEDEN;

ALGAE; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; COELOPIDAE; DIPTERA; POSIDONIA;

EID: 79960337172     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9442-x     Document Type: Article

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