Context-Specific Bioturbation Mediates Changes to Ecosystem Functioning

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1096-1109

  Needham, Hazel R ^a,b   Pilditch, Conrad A ^a   Lohrer, Andrew M ^b   Thrush, Simon F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Austrohelice crassa; benthic pelagic coupling; crab; density; ecosystem processes; intertidal; solute flux

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BIOTURBATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CRAB; DEPOSIT FEEDER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SOLUTE; STOCK MARKET;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 80855147584     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9468-0     Document Type: Article

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