Biodiversity of zoobenthic hard-substrate sublittoral communities in the Eastern Mediterranean (North Aegean Sea)

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 637-653

  Antoniadou, Chryssanthi ^a   Chintiroglou, Chariton ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Algal forms; Biodiversity; Community dynamic; Hard substrate; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; ZOOBENTHOS;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ALGAE;

EID: 13444283922     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2004.09.032     Document Type: Article

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