Abundance and colonization potential of artificial hard substrate-associated meiofauna

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-287

  Atilla, Nazan ^a,b   Wetzel, Markus A ^a,c   Fleeger, John W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Louisiana Universities Mar C   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial substrate; Colonization; Meiofauna; Pier pilings

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; MEIOFAUNA; PIER; PILE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGAE; COPEPODA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037432476     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(02)00569-5     Document Type: Article

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