Hypoxia and sulphide as structuring factors in a macrozoobenthic community on the Baltic Sea shore: Colonisation studies and tolerance experiments

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 144, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 73-85

  Gamenick, I ^a   Jahn, A ^b   Vopel, K ^c   Giere, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonisation; Cyprideis torosa; Hypoxia; Macrozoobenthos; Sulphide; Tolerance experiments

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HYPOXIA; MACROBENTHOS; MACROZOOBENTHOS; SULPHIDE; SULPHIDES; ZOOBENTHOS;

BALTIC SEA;

AMPHIPODA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; CYPRIDEIS TOROSA; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; OLIGOCHAETA; OSTRACODA; PARANAIS LITORALIS;

EID: 0030302930     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps144073     Document Type: Article

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