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Mussel selectivity for high-quality food drives carbon inputs into open-coast intertidal ecosystems

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Bracken, Matthew E. S., Menge, Bruce A., Foley, Melissa M., Sorte, Cascade J. B., Lubchenco, Jane, and Schiel, David R.

Abstract:

Filter-feeding invertebrates consume phytoplankton and detritus and therefore serve as important mediators of the exchange of materials from nearshore pelagic to intertidal benthic ecosystems. Here, we evaluated the linkages between nearshore and intertidal systems on temperate rocky reefs on the coasts of Oregon, USA, and New Zealand’s South Island. We...

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, Melissa M. Foley4, Cascade J. B. Sorte5, Jane Lubchenco3, David R. Schiel6 1Marine Science Center