Aggregated filter-feeding consumers alter nutrient limitation: Consequences for ecosystem and community dynamics

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1359-1369

  Atkinson, Carla L ^a   Vaughn, Caryn C ^a   Forshay, Kenneth J ^b   Cooper, Joshua T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Robert S Kerr Environmental Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Mussel; Nitrogen; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Nutrient limitation; Nutrient translocation; Spatial heterogeneity; Stoichiometry; Unionid

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FILTER; GREEN ALGA; HETEROGENEITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIVALVE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GREEN ALGA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OKLAHOMA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS;

KIAMICHI RIVER; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 84879579965     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1531.1     Document Type: Article

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