Trophic impact of long-lived species indicated by population dynamics in the short-lived hydrozoan Eudendrium racemosum

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 467, Issue , 2012, Pages 97-111

  Rossi, Sergio ^a   Bramanti, Lorenzo ^b   Broglio, Elisabetta ^b   Gili, Josep María ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal forest; Benthic suspension feeder; Benthic pelagic coupling; Ecosystem engineering; Energy storage; Hydroids; Self thinning rule; Trophic ecology

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BENTHOS; BIOENERGETICS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COLONY; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVERTEBRATE; LIPID; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PRESERVATION; PREY CAPTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF THINNING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

ANIMALIA; BRYOZOA; CNIDARIA; EUDENDRIUM RACEMOSUM; GORGONACEA; HYDROZOA; NUDIBRANCHIA;

EID: 84868021224     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09848     Document Type: Article

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