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- Title
Underestimation of Spartina productivity in western Atlantic marshes: marsh invertebrates eat more than just detritus.
- Authors
Silliman, Brian R.; Bortolus, Alejandro
- Abstract
Analyzes the need to amend the existing methods of measuring marsh grass growth and specifically in case of Spartina productivity in western Atlantic marshes. Importance of marsh primary productivity to ecological studies; Annual rate of productivity among salt marshes; Importance of grazing by abundant invertebrates in regulating marsh plant production.
- Subjects
MARSHES; SALT marshes; WETLANDS; PRIMARY productivity (Biology); INVERTEBRATES; FOOD chains; ECOLOGY
- Publication
Oikos, 2003, Vol 101, Issue 3, p549
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12070.x