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SUBMITTER: Donazar-Aramendia I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687818 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Donázar-Aramendía I I Sánchez-Moyano J E JE García-Asencio I I Miró J M JM Megina C C García-Gómez J C JC
Scientific reports 20190808 1
As a result of the increased urban and agricultural development in coastal environments, estuaries are among the most modified and threatened aquatic ecosystems. This study used stable isotopes to examine the effects of human impacts by contrasting the food web structures of two Iberian estuaries exposed to different degrees of human pressure. More complex feeding pathways were found in the more altered estuary (Guadalquivir). Greater spread among species along the carbon axis suggests that the ...[more]