Detrital kelp subsidy supports high reproductive condition of deep-living sea urchins in a sedimentary basin

Agriculture & Biology

• basins 77%
• cameras 33%
• Canada 14%
• detritus 60%
• digestive system 27%
• Echinoidea 88%
• energy 9%
• food availability 16%
• gametogenesis 19%
• germ cells 14%
• gonads 30%
• habitats 29%
• macroalgae 83%
• Nova Scotia 21%
• reproductive performance 15%
• seasonal variation 14%
• sediments 15%
• Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis 26%
• subsidies 100%
• temperature 6%
• thallus 18%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• consumption 11%
• deep water 13%
• detritus 51%
• energy source 16%
• food 11%
• food availability 19%
• gamete 22%
• gametogenesis 25%
• habitat 31%
• index 17%
• material 13%
• phytodetritus 24%
• rate 5%
• sea 45%
• sediment 8%
• sedimentary basin 83%
• spring (season) 20%
• subsidy 91%
• temperature 6%
• turnover 15%