The ecological importance of an invertebrate chemoautotrophic symbiosis to phanerogam seagrass beds

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1343-1351

  Johnson, M A ^a   Fernandez, C ^a   Pergent, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLLUSC; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SYMBIOSIS;

FRANCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; CYMODOCEA NODOSA; HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; LORIPES; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0038418279     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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