The Ythan Estuary - References
The following list of references is still in the process of being added to. We now have a total of 153 references to date (28 February 2008). All references to thesis are entered in dark red text. If you know of any research references which relate to the Ythan Estuary and are not in the following list please could you send them direct to Owen McPherson marked with the subject header "Ythan references".
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Domburg, P, Edwards, AC, Sinclair, AH, et al. (1998). Changes in fertilizer and manurial practices during 1960-1990: Implications for N and P inputs to the Ythan catchment, N.E. Scotland. Nutr Cycl Agroecosys 52 (1): 19-29
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Edwards, AC, Sinclair, AH, Domburg, P. (2003). Identification, designation and formulation of an action plan for a nitrate vulnerable zone: a case study of the Ythan catchment, NE Scotland. Eur J Agron 20: 165-172
El-Darsh, HEM, Whitfield, PJ (1999). Digenean metacercariae (Timoniella spp., Labratrema minimus and Cryptocotyle concava) from the flounder, Platichthys flesus, in the tidal Thames. J Helminthol 73 (2): 103-113
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Feller, R.J. (2006). Weak meiofaunal trophic linkages in Crangon crangon and Carcinus maenus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 330(1): 274-283
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Field, LC, Irwin, SWB (1999). Digenean larvae in Hydrobia ulvae from Belfast Lough (Northern Ireland) and the Ythan Estuary (north-east Scotland). J Mar Biol Assoc Uk 79 (3): 431-435
Falcy, V. (1987). Effect of eider predation on the mussel bed and its infaunal community in the Ythan Estuary, Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen University MSc Thesis.
Freitag,T. E.; Chang,L.; Prosser,J. I. Changes in the community structure and activity of betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing sediment bacteria along a freshwater marine gradient, 2006, Environmental Microbiology, 8, pp684 - 696
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Gillibrand, PA, Balls, PW (1998). Modelling salt intrusion and nitrate concentrations in the Ythan estuary. Estuar Coast Shelf S 47 (6): 695-706
Giroux, J.-F. (1991). Roost fidelity of pink-footed geese Anser brachyrhynchus in north- east Scotland. Bird Study 38 (2): 112-117.
Gooday, GW, Prosser, JI, Hillman, K, et al. (1991). Mineralization of chitin in an estuarine sediment - the importance of the chitosan pathway. Biochem Syst Ecol 19 (5): 395-400
Goodman, K.S. (1980). The ecology of meiofauna populations within the Ythan estuary. Aberdeen University PhD Thesis.
Goodman, K.S. (1979). The estimation of individual dry weight and standing crop of Harpacticoid Copepods. Hydrobiologia 72, 253-259 (1980)
Gorbushin, AM (1997). Field evidence of trematode-induced gigantism in Hydrobia spp. (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). J Mar Biol Assoc Uk 77 (3): 785-800
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Green, A. J. (1977). The production and utilisation of Enteromorpha sp. in the Ythan Estuary, Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen University PhD Thesis.
Green, D.R. (2005). Applying geospatial technologies to weedmat monitoring and mapping: The Ythan Estuary, NE Scotland. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband 141: 197-212.
Greenstreet, S.P.R. (1986). Use of the intertidal habitat of the Ythan estuary, Aberdeenshire, by the redshank, Tringa totanus (L.). Aberdeen University PhD Thesis.
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Hall, SJ, Raffaelli, D (1991). Food-web patterns - lessons from a species-rich web. J Anim Ecol 60 (3): 823-842
Healey, MC. (1972). Population ecology of common Goby in Ythan Estuary. Journal of Natural History 6 (2): 133
Healy, MC. (1971). Distribution and abundance of Sand Gobies, Bobius-minutus, in Ythan Estuary. Journal of Zoology 163 (Feb): 177
Healey, M.C. (1969). The distribution and abundance of sand gobies Gobius minutus in the Ythan estuary. Aberdeen University PhD Thesis.
Hillman, K, Gooday, GW, Prosser, JI (1989). The mineralization of chitin in the sediments of the Ythan-estuary, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Estuar Coast Shelf S 29 (6): 601-612
Hockin, DC (1982). The harpacticoid copepod fauna of the river ythan and its estuary, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. J Mar Biol Assoc Uk 62 (3): 729-736
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Hull, S.C. (1987). The growth of macroalgal mats on the Ythan estuary, with respect to their effects on invertebrate abundance. Aberdeen University PhD Thesis.
Huxham, M, Beaney, S, Raffaelli, D (1996). Do parasites reduce the chances of triangulation in a real food web? Oikos 76 (2): 284-300
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Huxham, M, Raffaelli, D, Pike, AW (1995). The effect of larval trematodes on the growth and burrowing behavior of hydrobia-ulvae (gastropoda, prosobranchiata) in the Ythan estuary, northeast Scotland. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 185 (1): 1-17
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Huxham, M.R. (1993). The importance of metazoan parasites in the food web of the Ythan estuary, Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen University PhD Thesis.
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Keller, VE (1991). Effects of human disturbance on eider ducklings Somateria-mollissima in an estuarine habitat in Scotland. Biol Conserv 58 (2): 213-228
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