Taxonomic aggregation and redundancy in a tropical macroinfaunal assemblage of the southern Caribbean in the detection of temporal patterns

Scientia Marina

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-141

  Guzmán Alvis, Angela Inés ^a   Carrasco, Franklin ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS Y COSTERAS INVEMAR   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Taxonomic redundancy; Taxonomic resolution; Temporal pattern; Tropical macroinfauna

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16344368348     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.2005.69n1133     Document Type: Article

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