The effects of turtle-introduced nutrients on beach ecosystems
Resource subsidies are flows of nutrients from one ecosystem to another. Sandy beach ecosystems are at the interface between land and sea and thus receive nutrients from both land/seascapes. The seasonal nesting of sea turtles introduces large inputs of eggs, and so nutrients, onto sandy beach ecosy...
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10948/6959 |