Estimating species richness, abundance and diversity with 70 macrobenthic replicates in the Western Baltic sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 214, Issue , 2001, Pages 103-110

  Rumohr, Heye ^a   Karakassis, Ioannis ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Nørrevang ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c Intl Cncl the Explor of the Sea ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abundance; Diversity; Macrobenthos sampling methodology; Species area curves; Western Baltic

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MACROBENTHOS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

(WEST); BALTIC SEA;

EID: 0035953456     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps214103     Document Type: Article

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