Ecosystem services transcend boundaries: Estuaries provide resource subsidies and influence functional diversity in coastal benthic communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Savage, Candida ^a   Thrush, Simon F ^b   Lohrer, Andrew M ^b   Hewitt, Judi E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 13;

ARTICLE; AUSTROVENUS STUTCHBURYI; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIVALVE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRITUS; DOSINIA SUBROSEA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ESTUARY; FOOD; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MOLLUSC; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC MATTER PRODUCTION; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; ISOTOPE LABELING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SEAWATER;

AUSTROVENUS STUCHBURII; BIVALVIA; DOSINIA;

EID: 84864556564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042708     Document Type: Article

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