Benthic food web structure in the Comau fjord, Chile (~42°S): Preliminary assessment including a site with chemosynthetic activity

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 149-158

  Zapata Hernández, Germán ^a   Sellanes, Javier ^a   Mayr, Christoph ^b,c   Muñoz, Práxedes ^a  

^a Universidad Católica del Norte   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ECOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

C AND N STABLE ISOTOPES; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NEAREST NEIGHBOR DISTANCE; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTION; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; TERRESTRIAL ORGANIC MATTER; CARBON INCORPORATION;

BACTERIA;

BENTHOS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FJORD; FOOD WEB; NICHE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

CHILE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FISSURELLA PICTA; NACELLA DEAURATA; TANAIDAE;

EID: 84922815564     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.03.005     Document Type: Article

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