Preliminary observations on the benthic macrofauna of a polluted coastal lagoon in Ghana (West Africa)

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-133

  Blay Jr , John ^a   Dongdem, Ferdinand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

'Closed' lagoon; distribution and abundance; diversity; macrozoobenthos

Indexed keywords

BIOMPHALARIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS SP.; FOSSARIA TRUNCATULA; GASTROPODA; INSECTA; LYMNAEA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; PELTODYTES; PSEUDAGRION;

EID: 0029781912     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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