Low abundance and skewed population structure of the whelk Stramonita haemastoma along the Israeli Mediterranean coast

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 218, Issue , 2001, Pages 189-202

  Rilov, G ^a   Benayahu, Y ^a   Gasith, A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Levant; Mediterranean; Population structure; Stramonita haemastoma

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; MOLLUSC; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SKEWNESS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; RHOPILEMA NOMADICA; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA; THAIS HAEMASTOMA;

EID: 0035920375     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps218189     Document Type: Article

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