Organic matter exploitation in a highly turbid environment: Planktonic food web in the Charente estuary, France

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 98, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-137

  Modéran, Julien ^a   David, Valérie ^a   Bouvais, Pierre ^a   Richard, Pierre ^a   Fichet, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Cladoceran; Copepod; Mysid; Particulate organic matter; Spatio temporal variation; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EXPLOITATION; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HOMOGENEITY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOBENTHOS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RUNOFF; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; TURBIDITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CHARENTE ESTUARY; CHARENTE MARITIME; FRANCE; POITOU-CHARENTES;

ACARTIA; COPEPODA; EURYTEMORA AFFINIS; MESOPODOPSIS SLABBERI; MYSIDA; NEOMYSIS INTEGER;

EID: 84855906718     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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