The contribution of fish communities to organic matter (OM) fluxes, especially between salt marshes and adjacent marine coastal waters are reviewed. For this a data set fromthe bay ofMont Saint-Michel and literature is examined and discussed. In a range of macro-tidal coasts of Europe, salt marshes are only flooded at spring tides for a short time. Many animals, including fish, then invade the salt marshes through tidal creeks. They forage there for up to a few hours and swim back to sea at ebb. Meanwhile, organic matter is exported as gut content. In the 4000 ha of salt marshes of the bay of Mont Saint-Michel mullets were responsible for the export of about 8 kg of dry weight OM ha
Do fish communities function as biotic vectors of organic matter between salt marshes and marine coastal waters?
Mise à jour :
20 octobre 1999
matière organique
poisson
qualité de l'eau
Lien vers la ressource
Type de document
Publication scientifique
Auteurs personnes
Feunteun, Eric
Laffaille, Pascal
Lefeuvre Jean-Claude
Éditeur
Springer Verlag
Date de parution
20 octobre 1999
Langue
Anglais