Sediment-biota interactions: Mysid feeding activity enhances water turbidity and sediment erodability

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 281, Issue , 2004, Pages 145-154

  Roast, S D ^a,c   Widdows, J ^b   Pope, N ^b   Jones, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Flume; Neomysis integer; Sediment dynamics; Swarm; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ERODIBILITY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; TURBIDITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; TAMAR ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MYSIDA; MYSIDACEA; NEOMYSIS; NEOMYSIS INTEGER;

EID: 9644257063     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps281145     Document Type: Article

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