Composition of the organismic assemblage associated with Caretta caretta

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 257-261

  Kitsos, Miltiadis Spyridon ^a   Christodoulou, Magdalini ^a   Arvanitidis, Christos ^b   Mavidis, Michalis ^a   Kirmitzoglou, Ioannis ^a   Koukouras, Athanasios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EPIBIONT; TURTLE;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 18244363640     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405011136h     Document Type: Article

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