Assessing the potential benthic-pelagic coupling in episodic blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) settlement events within eelgrass (Zostera marina) communities

Agriculture & Biology

• Zostera marina 89%
• Mytilus edulis 79%
• Asteroidea 41%
• mussels 34%
• crabs 19%
• algal blooms 16%
• summer 13%
• water filters 10%
• Carcinus 10%
• Asterias 10%
• Majidae 9%
• secondary productivity 9%
• Callinectes sapidus 9%
• water temperature 6%
• species recruitment 5%
• water 5%
• predation 5%
• ecosystems 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• benthic-pelagic coupling 100%
• marina 75%
• crab 27%
• brown tide 22%
• sea 18%
• algal bloom 11%
• summer 11%
• nursery ground 9%
• secondary production 8%
• spider 8%
• seagrass 7%
• rate 6%
• predation 6%
• predator 5%
• water temperature 5%
• grass 5%
• water column 5%