Marine Ecology Progress Series
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(2008) Vol. 360 - Table of contents
Assimilation and retention of metals in teleost and elasmobranch fishes following dietary exposure
Feature ArticleDOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07462RESEARCH ARTICLEEffects of small rivers on chemical properties of sediment and diets for primary consumers in estuarine tidal flats
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07388RESEARCH ARTICLEImportance of trophic information, simplification and aggregation error in ecosystem models
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07394RESEARCH ARTICLEApical dominance and the importance of clonal integration to apical growth in the seagrass Syringodium filiforme
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07408RESEARCH ARTICLEAssessing the importance of land and marine sources of organic matter to kelp forest food webs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07382RESEARCH ARTICLERecovering a lost baseline: missing kelp forests from a metropolitan coast
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07526RESEARCH ARTICLESeasonal significance of N2 fixation in coastal and offshore waters of the northwestern Baltic Sea
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07379RESEARCH ARTICLEAsynchronous coral spawning patterns on equatorial reefs in Kenya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07385RESEARCH ARTICLEGrazing, differential size-class dynamics and survival of the Mediterranean sponge Corticium candelabrum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07365RESEARCH ARTICLEIn situ quantification of Tripneustes gratilla grazing and its effects on three co-occurring tropical seagrass species
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07362RESEARCH ARTICLEPlasticity in the diet of two echinoderm species across an ecotone: microbial recycling of forest litter and bottom-up forcing of population structure
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07434RESEARCH ARTICLEUsing stylet elemental signatures to determine the population structure of Octopus maorum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07389RESEARCH ARTICLEPopulation sinks in the Upper Florida Keys: the importance of demographic variation in population dynamics of the marine shrimp Stenopus hispidus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07404RESEARCH ARTICLEBiochemically based modeling study of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba growth and development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07366RESEARCH ARTICLEEuphausiid transport in the Western Arctic Ocean
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07387RESEARCH ARTICLEA simplified age-stage model for copepod population dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07314RESEARCH ARTICLECircumpolar genetic population structure of capelin Mallotus villosus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07363RESEARCH ARTICLEBehavior of individual mesopelagic fish in acoustic scattering layers of Norwegian fjords
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07364RESEARCH ARTICLEMulti-species regime shifts reflected in spawning temperature optima of small pelagic fish in the western North Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07407RESEARCH ARTICLECoral reef fishes exploit flow refuges in high-flow habitats
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07482RESEARCH ARTICLEMaternal effects in rockfishes Sebastes spp.: a comparison among species
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07468RESEARCH ARTICLESize-dependent variation in the functional role of the parrotfish Scarus rivulatus on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07413RESEARCH ARTICLEEvaluating quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) using harbour seals Phoca vitulina richardsi in captive feeding studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07378RESEARCH ARTICLESpatial and temporal variation in the diet of Steller sea lions in the Kodiak Archipelago, 1999 to 2005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07383RESEARCH ARTICLESea lion Otaria flavescens as host of the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07393RESEARCH ARTICLEGray whales may increase feeding opportunities for avian benthivores
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07359
