Seasonal hypoxia and models of benthic response in a Texas Bay

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-20

  Ritter, Christine ^a   Montagna, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HYPOXIA; MODEL;

CORPUS CHRISTI BAY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); POLYCHAETA; STREBLOSPIO BENEDICTI; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0032945904     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352922     Document Type: Article

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