Isotopic studies in Pacific Panama mangrove estuaries reveal lack of effect of watershed deforestation on food webs

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-102

  Viana, Inés G ^a,b   Valiela, Ivan ^a   Martinetto, Paulina ^c   Monteiro Pierce, Rita ^a   Fox, Sophia E ^d  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b Centro Nacional Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^d NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Food webs; Mixing models; Nitrogen; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SULFUR; WATERSHEDS;

EXTERNAL SOURCES; FOOD WEBS; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; MIXING MODELS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

ESTUARIES;

CARBON; NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SULFUR; CARBON ISOTOPES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DEFORESTATION; ESTUARINE CHEMISTRY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANGROVE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TROPICAL FOREST; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORALLINE ALGA; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARY; FOOD WEB; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LARGE PARTICULATE MATTER; MACROALGA; MANGROVE; MICROPHYTOBENTHOS; MIXING MODEL; NONHUMAN; PANAMA; PARTICULATE MATTER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WATERSHED; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; FOOD CHAIN; WETLANDS;

CARBON; FOOD; MODELS; NITROGEN; SULFUR;

PACIFIC COAST [PANAMA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ALGAE;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; FOOD CHAIN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PANAMA; SULFUR ISOTOPES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84919346272     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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