Macrofaunal communities in the Wichter Ee, a channel system in the East Frisian Wadden Sea

Senckenbergiana Maritima

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Nehmer, Petra ^a   Kröncke, Ingrid ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic communities; Macrofauna; Sublittoral; Tidal channel; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MACROBENTHOS; ORDINATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TIDAL CHANNEL;

EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; WADDEN SEA; WICHTER EE;

AMPHIPODA; ARMIGER; BATHYPOREIA PELAGICA; CAPITELLA; HAUSTORIUS ARENARIUS; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; MAGELONA; MAGELONA JOHNSTONI; OLIGOCHAETA; PARAONIS FULGENS; PELOSCOLEX BENEDENI; POLYCHAETA; SCOLELEPIS SQUAMATA; SCOLOPLOS ARMIGER; SPIO MARTINENSIS; SQUAMATA; THARYX KILLARIENSIS; TUBIFICOIDES; TUBIFICOIDES BENEDENI;

EID: 0041827679     PISSN: 0080889X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03043081     Document Type: Article

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