Spatial variation in growth of Macoma balthica and Mya arenaria (Mollusca, Bivalvia) in relation to environmental gradients in the Pomeranian Bay (Southern Baltic Sea)

Archive of Fishery and Marine Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 81-93

  Kube, Jan ^a   Peters, Christine ^a   Powilleit, Martin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

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