Variability in predator abundance links winter temperatures and bivalve recruitment: Correlative evidence from long-term data in a tidal flat

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 513, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Beukema, J J ^a   Dekker, R ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carcinus maenas; Cerastoderma edule; Crangon crangon; Macoma balthica; Mya arenaria; Mytilus edulis; Temperature rise; Tidal flats; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; CARRYING CAPACITY; DATA SET; PREDATOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIDAL FLAT; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

BIVALVIA; CARCINUS MAENAS; CERASTODERMA EDULE; CRANGON CRANGON; MACOMA BALTHICA; MYA ARENARIA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 84908476879     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: 16161599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10978     Document Type: Article

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