The macrofaunal assemblage associated with the scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa (L.) in the Aegean Sea

Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 97-114

  Koukouras, Athanasios ^a   Kühlmann, Dietrich ^b   Voultsiadou, Eleni ^a   Vafidis, Dimitris ^c   Dounas, Costas ^d   Chintiroglou, Chariton ^a   Koutsoubas, Drosos ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Ecostation ^*  (Germany)

^c Institute of Fisheries Research   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Associated fauna; Cladocora caespitosa; Faunal diversity; Mediterranean Sea; Scleractinia; Zooxanthellate

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL; MACROBENTHOS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER DEPTH; ZOOXANTHELLA;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CLADOCORA CAESPITOSA;

EID: 0032226464     PISSN: 00789682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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