Do benthic macrofauna functional groups or their key constituent species better predict variation in ecosystem functioning?

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Do benthic macrofauna functional groups or their key constituent species better predict variation in ecosystem functioning?

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Estuarine ecosystems are important zones for primary productivity and nutrient processing, have rich communities of plants and animals and support important fisheries and are fundamental to food webs. Intertidal habitats in estuaries are highly dynamic environments, subject to tidal variation and often have strong environmental gradients of salinity, turbidity and bed sediment grain size. These environmental factors contribute to the diversity of macrofaunal assemblages which vary over a rang...

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2018

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Petersen, Grady

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/11950

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Marine science / Marine ecology / Benthic ecology / Functional groups / Ecosystem function / ecosystem / Manukau / macrofauna / denitrification / nitrogen / flux / benthos

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