Seasonal changes in mollusc abundance in a tropical intertidal ecosystem, Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania): Testing the 'depletion by shorebirds' hypothesis

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 136, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-34

  Ahmedou Salem, Mohamed Vall ^a   van der Geest, Matthijs ^b   Piersma, Theunis ^b,c   Saoud, Younès ^a   van Gils, Jan A ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Banc d'Arguin; Depletion; Molluscs; Optimal diet; Seasonality; Shorebirds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIVORY; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DOMINANCE; GASTROPOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEAGRASS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WADER;

BANC D'ARGUIN NATIONAL PARK; MAURITANIA;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; DOSINIA; GASTROPODA; GIBBULA; GIBBULA UMBILICALIS; INVERTEBRATA; LORIPES; LORIPES LUCINALIS; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84898629409     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2013.11.009     Document Type: Article

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