Establishing Functional Relationships between Abiotic Environment, Macrophyte Coverage, Resource Gradients and the Distribution of Mytilus trossulus in a Brackish Non-Tidal Environment.

Benthic suspension feeding mussels are an important functional guild in coastal and estuarine ecosystems. To date we lack information on how various environmental gradients and biotic interactions separately and interactively shape the distribution patterns of mussels in non-tidal environments. Oppo...

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Main Authors: Jonne Kotta, Katarina Oganjan, Velda Lauringson, Merli Pärnoja, Ants Kaasik, Liisa Rohtla, Ilmar Kotta, Helen Orav-Kotta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4552857?pdf=render