Free-living marine nematodes from hydrothermal sediments: Similarities with communities from diverse reduced habitats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 157, Issue , 1997, Pages 207-219

  Vanreusel, Ann ^a   Van Den Bossche, Isabelle ^a   Thiermann, Frank ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonization; Community analysis; Hydrothermal vents; Nematodes

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HYDROTHERMAL ORGANISMS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MEIOBENTHOS; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE COMMUNITY; SEDIMENT;

NORTH FIJI BASIN; PACIFIC;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0030729247     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps157207     Document Type: Article

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