Food-Web structure of seagrass communities across different spatial scales and human impacts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Coll, Marta ^a,b   Schmidt, Allison ^a   Romanuk, Tamara ^a   Lotze, Heike K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COASTAL WATERS; DEGRADATION; EUTROPHICATION; FOOD WEB; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SEAGRASS; SIMULATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; AQUATIC SPECIES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOTA; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

SEA WATER;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOTA; CANADA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; POACEAE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960636230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022591     Document Type: Article

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