Seasonal and between-substrate variation in mobile epifaunal community in a multispecific seagrass bed of Otsuchi bay, Japan

Marine Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 379-395

  Nakaoka, Masahiro ^a,c   Toyohara, Tetsuhiko ^a,d   Matsumasa, Masatoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Marine Biological Research Institute of Japan Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abundance; Community structure; Diversity; Japan; Mobile epifauna; Otsuchi Bay; Seagrass; Zostera caulescens; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EPIFAUNA; SEAGRASS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

JAPAN;

ANIMALIA; HALOPHILA; ZOSTERA CAESPITOSA; ZOSTERA CAULESCENS; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0035666397     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0485.2001.01726.x     Document Type: Article

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