Change of topography and sediment characteristics on an intertidal mud-flat following mass-mortality of the amphipod Corophium volutator

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1167-1180

  Mouritsen, Kim N ^a   Mouritsen, Lone T ^a   Jensen, K Thomas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; MASS MORTALITY; MUDFLAT; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY;

WADDEN SEA;

AMPHIPODA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; COROPHIUM; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; COROPHIURN;

EID: 0032413855     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315400044404     Document Type: Article

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