Spatial and temporal patterns of platyhelminth assemblages in intertidal sediments of northeast Australia

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 383, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 41-47

  Dittmann, Sabine ^a  

^a Forschungszentrum Terramare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distribution; Interaction; Meiofauna; Platyhelminthes; Sediment composition; Tropical tidal flat

Indexed keywords

FLATWORM; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 0032432243     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1003473929312     Document Type: Article

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