The continental shelf of Crete: Structure of macrobenthic communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 160, Issue , 1997, Pages 185-196

  Karakassis, Ioannis ^a   Eleftheriou, Anastasios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abundance; ATP; Biomass; Chlorophyll; Continental shelf; Diversity; Eastern Mediterranean; Macrofaunal community; Particulate organic carbon; Redox potential

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; MACROBENTHOS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CRETE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0031573981     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps160185     Document Type: Article

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