Seabird Guano Fertilizes Baltic Sea Littoral Food Webs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gagnon, Karine ^a   Rothäusler, Eva ^a   Syrjänen, Anneli ^a   Yli Renko, Maria ^a   Jormalainen, Veijo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FILAMENTOUS ALGA; FOOD WEB; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; GUANO; HERBIVORE; IDOTEA BALTHICA; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PERIPHYTON; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SUMMER; THEODOXUS FLUVIATILIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FECES; FINLAND; FOOD CHAIN; FUCUS; GASTROPODA; HERBIVORY; ISOPODA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGAE; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; GASTROPODA; IDOTEA BALTICA; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS; THEODOXUS FLUVIATILIS;

EID: 84876115088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061284     Document Type: Article

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