The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: Do plankton and benthos really exist?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 177-180

  Boero, Ferdinando ^a   Belmonte, Genuario ^a   Fanelli, Giovanni ^b   Piraino, Stefano ^b   Rubino, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; MARINE ORGANISM; PLANKTON; RECIPROCAL CONNECTIONS;

EID: 0029174111     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)20007-2     Document Type: Article

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