Community structure and intertidal zonation of the macrobenthos on a macrotidal, ultra-dissipative sandy beach: Summer-winter comparison

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 742-752

  Degraer, S ^a   Mouton, I ^a   De Neve, L ^a   Vincx, M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACH; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MACROBENTHOS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BELGIUM; DE PANNE;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; BATHYPOREIA; CIROLANIDAE; EURYDICE PULCHRA; ISOPODA; NEPHTYIDAE; NEPHTYS CIRROSA; POLYCHAETA; SEOLELEPIS; SEOLELEPIS SQUAMATA; SPIO FILICORNIS; SPIONIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0032704278     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353107     Document Type: Article

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