Allochthonous Organic Matter Supports Benthic but Not Pelagic Food Webs in Shallow Coastal Ecosystems

• DOI: 10.1007/s10021-018-0233-5
• Publication Date: 2018-02-23T14:15:55Z
• Authors: Pia Bartels; Jenny Ask; Agneta Andersson; Jan Karlsson; Reiner Giesler
• Keywords: Naturgeografi; 15. Life on land; 01 natural sciences; Bothnian Sea; climate change; terrestrial organic carbon; autochthonous production; Physical Geography; 13. Climate action; food webs; stable isotope analysis; benthic-pelagic coupling; 14. Life underwater; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Rivers transport large amounts of allochthonous organic matter (OM) to the ocean every year, but there are still fundamental gaps in how allochthonous OM is processed in the marine environment. Her ...