Temporal persistence in the vertical structure of the assemblage of planktonic medusae in the NW Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 189, Issue , 1999, Pages 105-115

  Buecher, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Gibbons, Mark J ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Mediterranean Sea; Medusae; Seasonality; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

PLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; EUKARYOTA; HYDROIDA; HYDROZOA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE;

EID: 0033607550     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps189105     Document Type: Article

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