First survey of sessile communities on subtidal rocks in an area with hydrothermal vents: Milos Island, Aegean Sea

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 426, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-121

  Cocito, Silvia ^a   Bianchi, C Nike ^a   Morri, Carla ^b   Peirano, Andrea ^a  

^a ENEA Marine Environment Research Centre   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Bioconstruction; Community zonation; Hard substrate epibenthos; Shallow hydrothermal vents

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; SESSILE SPECIES;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0034656898     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003991117108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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