Factors Affecting the Distribution Patterns of Benthic Invertebrates at a Major Shorebird Staging Site in the Yellow Sea, China

Wetlands

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1085-1096

  Choi, Chi Yeung ^a   Battley, Phil F ^a   Potter, Murray A ^a   Ma, Zhijun ^b   Liu, Wenliang ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; East Asian Australasian Flyway; Intertidal flat; Inundation; Shellfish

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; COASTAL WETLAND; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL FLAT; WADER;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84914124465     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0568-4     Document Type: Article

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