Effects of landscape configuration on the exchange of materials in seagrass ecosystems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 532, Issue , 2015, Pages 89-100

  Ricart, Aurora M ^a   Dalmau, Andreu ^a   Pérez, Marta ^a   Romero, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coastal seascape; Deposit feeder diets; Habitat linkages; Holothuria; Spatial subsidy; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ALLOCHTHON; CARBON ISOTOPE; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSIT FEEDER; DETRITUS; DIET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC MATTER; SEAGRASS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

HOLOTHURIA; HOLOTHUROIDEA;

EID: 84938074311     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: 16161599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11384     Document Type: Article

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