Temporal variations in fine sand assemblages in the North Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-187

  Kourelea, Evdokia ^a   Vafidis, Dimitrios ^b   Chintiroglou, Chariton Charles ^a   Trontsios, Georgios ^c   Chicharo, Louis ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Fisheries Research Institute   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Donax; Fisheries; Macrofauna; Meiofauna

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMONITORING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11144240534     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200310672     Document Type: Article

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