The influence of the cockle, Cerastoderma edule, on the macrozoobenthic community of tidal flats in the Wadden Sea

Marine Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 87-98

  Flach, Els C ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioturbation; Cerastoderma edule; Tidal flat; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; ANAITIDES; APHELOCHAETA MARIONI; ARMIGER; BIVALVIA; CAPITATA; CAPITELLA CAPITATA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; COROPHIUM ARENARIUM; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; ENSIS DIRECTUS; ETEONE LONGA; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; LANICE CONCHILEGA; MACOMA BALTHICA; MYA ARENARIA; NEANTHES DIVERSICOLOR; NEPHTYS HOMBERGII; NEREIS; PYGOSPIO ELEGANS; SCOLOPLOS ARMIGER; TELLINA TENUIS; THARYX; ANGULUS TENUIS; NEREIS DIVERSICOLOR; POLYCHAETA; THARYX MARIONI;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; TIDAL FLAT; ZOOBENTHOS;

WADDEN SEA;

EID: 0030485108     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1996.tb00492.x     Document Type: Article

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