Resource competition between macrobenthic epifauna and infauna in a Kenyan Avicennia marina mangrove forest

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 136, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 123-135

  Schrijvers, J ^a   Fermon, H ^a   Vincx, M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Epibenthos; Exclusion experiment; Infauna; Kenya; Macrobenthos; Mangroves

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; ANNELIDA; AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; ENCHYTRAEIDAE; INSECTA; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); POLYCHAETA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TUBIFICIDAE;

EID: 0029812894     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps136123     Document Type: Article

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