Seasonality in coastal benthic ecosystems

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 448-453

  Coma, Rafel ^a,b   Ribes, Marta ^a   Gili, Josep Maria ^a   Zabala, Mikel ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; FILTER FEEDER; SEASONALITY;

ADAPTATION; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY; WINTER;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033789170     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01970-4     Document Type: Review

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