The changing Mediterranean Sea - A sensitive ecosystem?

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 387-400

  Turley, Carol M ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032751271     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00033-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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