Microphytobenthos: The Ecological Role of the "Secret Garden" of Unvegetated, Shallow-Water Marine Habitats. II. Role in Sediment Stability and Shallow-Water Food Webs

Microbial exopolymer secretions in ocean environments: their role(s) in food webs and marine processes

1990 • 1,197 citations

Ecology of Deposit-Feeding Animals in Marine Sediments

1987 • 617 citations

Does the Benthos Control Phytoplankton Biomass in South San Francisco Bay?

1982 • 591 citations

Sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen isotopes used to trace organic matter flow in the salt‐marsh estuaries of Sapelo Island, Georgia1

1987 • 528 citations

Benthic Filter Feeding: A Natural Eutrophication Control

1982 • 492 citations

Short‐term changes in the erodibility of intertidal cohesive sediments related to the migratory behavior of epipelic diatoms

1989 • 451 citations

THE ROLE OF DETRITUS IN THE NUTRITION OF TWO MARINE DEPOSIT FEEDERS, THE PROSOBRANCH HYDROBIA ULVAE AND THE BIVALVE MACOMA BALTHICA

1965 • 451 citations

ECOLOGY OF MARINE MEIOBENTHOS

1969 • 403 citations

Modeling Animal Guts as Chemical Reactors

1987 • 380 citations

Photosynthesis and structure of benthic microbial mats: Microelectrode and SEM studies of four cyanobacterial communities1

1983 • 338 citations

Role of biodeposition by Mytilus edulis in the circulation of matter and nutrients in a Baltic coastal ecosystem

1987 • 330 citations

THE INTERSTITIAL FAUNA OF MARINE SAND

1964 • 323 citations

Feeding and digestion by the mussel Mytilus edulis L. (Bivalvia: Mollusca) in mixtures of silt and algal cells at low concentrations

1987 • 320 citations

Food Sources of Estuarine Invertebrates Analyzed Using ¹³C/¹²C Ratios

1979 • 317 citations

Edaphic algae are an important component of salt marsh food-webs: evidence from multiple stable isotope analyses

1990 • 312 citations

Physical mechanisms and rates of particle capture by suspension-feeders

1991 • 306 citations

Primary production of the benthic microflora living on tidal flats in the dutch wadden sea

1974 • 297 citations

Feeding behavior and general ecology of several spionid polychaetes from the chesapeake bay

1981 • 285 citations

Ecology and Metabolism of a Benthic Community on an Intertidal Sandflat

1968 • 231 citations

Quantitative evidence concerning the stabilization of sediments by marine benthic diatoms

1974 • 216 citations

Sediment destabilization by animal tubes

1981 • 214 citations

Optimal foraging by deposit-feeding invertebrates: Roles of particle size and organic coating

1982 • 210 citations

Relationships between bacteria and grain surfaces in intertidal sediments1

1983 • 207 citations

In situ measurement of meiobenthic grazing rates on sediment bacteria and edaphic diatoms

1984 • 206 citations

Sulfur and Carbon Isotopes as Tracers of Salt-Marsh Organic Matter Flow

1986 • 204 citations

Facilitation of Soft‐Bottom Benthic Succession By Tube Builders

1983 • 203 citations

Induction of Suspension Feeding in Spionid Polychaetes by High Particulate Fluxes

1980 • 194 citations

Evidence for Exploitative Interspecific Competition in Mud Snails (Hydrobiidae)

1976 • 188 citations

Exopolymer microenvironments of microbial flora: Multiple and interactive effects on trophic relationships

1993 • 185 citations

Fluid and Sediment Dynamic Effects on Marine Benthic Community Structure

1984 • 184 citations

Marine Sediments: Effects of a Tube-Building Polychaete

1964 • 173 citations

The Influence of Mussel Beds on Nutrients in the Western Wadden Sea and Eastern Scheldt Estuaries

1991 • 169 citations

The effect of tidal resuspension on the distribution of intertidal epipelic algae in an estuary

1980 • 160 citations

The Ecology of Micro-and Meiobenthos

1978 • 160 citations

PRODUCTION ECOLOGY OF A SANDY BEACH

1968 • 160 citations

Predicting particle selection by deposit feeders: A model and its implications 1

1978 • 150 citations

Micro-organisms attached to marine sand grains

1968 • 146 citations

Resuspension in the shallow sublittoral zone of a macrotidal estuarine environment: Wind influence1

1987 • 143 citations

Ecology of Marine Deposit Feeders

1989 • 140 citations

Beyond Selection: Optimal Ingestion Rate as a Function of Food Value

1981 • 138 citations

Growth of Capitella capitata cultured on various levels of detritus derived from different sources1

1977 • 134 citations

Observations and experiments on the population dynamics of epipelic diatoms from an estuarine mudflat

1982 • 128 citations

Scanning electron microscopy and epifluorescence investigation of bacterial colonization of marine sand sediments

1977 • 127 citations

13C/12C ratios and the trophic importance of algae in Florida Syringodium filiforme seagrass meadows

1984 • 126 citations

Selectivity in feeding by the deposit-feeding bivalve Macoma nasuta

1975 • 125 citations

The dynamics of near-bed seston flux and suspension-feeding benthos

1987 • 125 citations

Bacterial exopolymer utilization by a harpacticoid copepod: A methodology and results

1990 • 124 citations

The relative magnitude of biological and physical sediment reworking in an intertidal community

1983 • 122 citations

Subaerial exposure and changes in the stability of intertidal estuarine sediments

1990 • 121 citations

Measurement of protein in nearshore marine sediments

1986 • 121 citations

Mechanics of particle selection by tentaculate deposit-feeders

1982 • 118 citations

The occurrence of ‘epipsammic’ diatom populations: A result of interaction between physical sorting of sediment and certain properties of diatom species

1985 • 115 citations

Enhanced deposition to pits: A local food source for benthos

1993 • 115 citations

Short-term variation in the quantity and quality of seston available to benthic suspension feeders

1992 • 111 citations

The availability of microorganisms attached to sediment particles as food for Hydrobia ventrosa Montagu (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)

1978 • 110 citations

Flow disruption by an animal-tube mimic affects sediment bacterial colonization

1985 • 107 citations

Seasonal shifts of sediment within an estuary mediated by algal growth

1979 • 106 citations

The Seasonal Succession Patterns of Diatom Species on an Intertidal Mudflat: An Experimental Analysis

1984 • 105 citations

Deposit and suspension feeding in oscillatory flows and sediment fluxes

1992 • 105 citations

Experiments on resuspension of natural microphytobenthos populations

1991 • 105 citations

Cross-phyletic patterns of particle selection by deposit feeders

1988 • 104 citations

Wind Induced Resuspension in a Shallow Tropical Lagoon

1993 • 100 citations

Utilization of deposited and suspended particulate matter by benthic “interface” feeders

1992 • 98 citations

Qualitative and Quantitative Interactions between Microphytobenthos and Herbivorous Meiofauna on a Brackish Intertidal Mudflat

1983 • 96 citations

Experiments on the resuspension of estuarine sediments containing benthic diatoms

1987 • 90 citations

Overlapping microscale dispersion patterns of meiofauna and microphytobenthos

1990 • 90 citations

Biochemical Composition and Nutritive Value of Suspended Particulate Matter Over a Tidal Flat of Southern Chile

1993 • 89 citations

Nutrition and food limitation of deposit feeders 1. the role of microbes in the growth of mud snails hydrobiidae

1981 • 88 citations

Response of the Dutch Wadden Sea ecosystem to phosphorus discharges from the River Rhine

1990 • 83 citations

The effect of grazing by a gastropod, Nassarius obsoletus, on the benthic microbial community of a salt marsh mudflat

1979 • 82 citations

Effect of tidal currents, seston, and bottom sediments on growth of Mercenaria mercenaria: results of a field experiment

1989 • 81 citations

Supply-Side Optimization: Maximizing Absorptive Rates

1990 • 79 citations

Low-density particles as potential nitrogenous foods for benthos

1993 • 78 citations

Variable feeding behavior in three species ofMacoma (Bivalvia: Tellinacea) as a response to water flow and sediment transport

1991 • 77 citations

Effects of sediment transport on deposit feeding: Scaling arguments1

1984 • 71 citations

The effect of organic nitrogen supplement on the utilization of different sources of detritus1

1979 • 71 citations

Resuspension and growth ofOstrea edulis: A field experiment

1990 • 69 citations

A bioassay approach to seasonal variation in the nutritional value of sediment

1993 • 69 citations

The effect of freshwater inflow on meiofaunal consumption of sediment bacteria and microphytobenthos in San Antonio Bay, Texas, U.S.A.

1991 • 68 citations

Measurement of meiofauna grazing rates on microphytobenthos: is primary production a limiting factor?

1991 • 66 citations

A statistical model relating horizontal seston fluxes and bottom sediment characteristics to growth of Mercenaria mercenaria

1989 • 63 citations

Effect of food type and ration on growth of juvenile Capitella sp. I (Annelida: Polychaeta): macro- and micronutrients

1989 • 63 citations

Carbon Inputs to Bivalve Mollusks: A Comparison of Two Estuaries

1982 • 62 citations

Effects of sediment-protein concentration on feeding and growth rates of Abarenicola pacifica Healy et Wells (Polychaeta: Arenicolidae)

1990 • 59 citations

Boat traffic, sediment resuspension and turbidity in a Broadland river

1987 • 59 citations

The importance of microalgae, bacteria and particulate organic matter in the somatic growth of <I>Hydrobia totteni</I>

1984 • 55 citations

The influence of wind waves and tidal currents on sediment resuspension in Middle Chesapeake Bay

1985 • 51 citations

Nutrition and food limitation of deposit feeders 2. differential effects of hydrobia totteni and ilyanassa obsoleta on the microbial community

1981 • 51 citations

Energy flow in the flora and meiofauna of sandy beaches

1978 • 50 citations

Does Mercenaha mercenaha encounter elevated food levels in seagrass beds? Results from a novel technique to collect suspended food resources

1993 • 49 citations

The influence of the filter-feeding bivalve Cerastoderma edule L. on microphytobenthos: a laboratory study

1991 • 48 citations

RICE: Early diagenesis of protein: A seasonal study

1992 • 48 citations

Differences in effects of grazing by deposit-feeders Hydrobia ulvae (Pennant) (Gastropoda : Prosobranchia) and Corophium arenarium Crawford (Amphipoda) on sediment microalgal populations. I. Qualitative differences

1988 • 48 citations

The Relationship Between Ingestion Rate of Deposit Feeders and Sediment Nutritional Value

1989 • 48 citations

Storm effects on particulate food resources on an intertidal sandflat

1995 • 46 citations

Effects of sediment organics, detrital input, and temperature on demography, production, and body size of a deposit feeder

1988 • 45 citations

Abrasion effects on microbes in sandy sediments

1989 • 43 citations

Resuspension in the Kattegat: Impact of variation in wind climate and fishery

1990 • 42 citations

Deposit-Feeders, Their Resources, and the Study of Resource Limitation

1979 • 42 citations

Nutrient procurement strategy of a deposit-feeding estuarine neogastropod, Ilyanassa obsoleta

1981 • 42 citations

Direct uptake of detrital carbon by the deposit-feeding polychaete Euzonus mucronata (Treadwell)

1986 • 42 citations

Selective grazing by the mud snail Ilyanassa obsoleta

1982 • 41 citations

CARBON RESOURCES OF A BENTHIC SALT MARSH INVERTEBRATE NASSARIUS OBSOLETUS SAY (MOLLUSCA: NASSARIIDAE)11Contribution number 309 University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Georgia. This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant # DES 72-01605-A02.

1977 • 40 citations

Contributions of Benthic Microalgae to Coastal Fishery Yield

1992 • 40 citations

Effects of animal density and supply of deposited and suspended food particles on feeding, growth and small-scale distributions of two spionid polychaetes

1992 • 37 citations

Deposit Feeding and Coastal Oceanography

1989 • 36 citations

The Role of Hydrodynamic Sorting of Seston in the Nutrition of a Benthic Suspension Feeder, Spio setosa (Polychaeta: Spionidae)

2013 • 35 citations

Behavior and growth ofMercenaria mercenaria during simulated storm events

1991 • 31 citations

Seston variability and daily growth in Mercenaria mercenaria on an intertitla sandflat

1994 • 29 citations

Functional response of a surface-deposit feeder, Saccoglossus kowalewkii

1994 • 28 citations

A chlorophyll budget of the sediment-water interface and the effect of stabilizing biofilms on particle fluxes

1986 • 28 citations

Structure of a mudflat diatom community in the Avon‐Heathcote Estuary, New Zealand

1982 • 27 citations

Nutrient uptake by a deposit-feeding enteropneust: nitrogenous sources

1990 • 26 citations

The Importance of Autotroph Distribution to Mussel Growth in a Well-Mixed, Temperate Estuary

1993 • 25 citations

Carbon fixation and chlorophyll in bottom sediments of brackish Lake Grevelingen, The Netherlands

1984 • 24 citations

Rapid settling rates observed in sediments resuspended by boat wavesv over a tidal flat

1976 • 23 citations

Behavior of a passive suspension-feeder (Spiochaetopterus oculatus (Webster)) under oscillatory flow

1991 • 21 citations

A Method for Measuring Horizontal Transport of Organic Carbon Over Sediments

1985 • 18 citations

Competition among the pioneers in a seasonal soft-bottom benthic succession: field experiments and analysis of the Gilpin-Ayala competition model

1990 • 18 citations

ANNUAL PRODUCTIVITY AND EXTRACELLULAR RELEASE OF DISSOLVED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS BY THE EPIBENTHIC ALGAL COMMUNITY OF A BRACKISH MARSH¹

1985 • 15 citations

Effect of flow and sediment transport on feeding rate of the surface-deposit feeder Saccoglossus kowalevskii

1996 • 11 citations