Variability of Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages subject to local variation in sediment deposition

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 403-421

  Balata, David ^a   Piazzi, Luigi ^a   Cecchi, Enrico ^b   Cinelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Cooperativa del Parco Naturale dell'Isola di Gorgona ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Coralligenous assemblages; Deep sublittoral; Mediterranean Sea; Sedimentation; Substrate orientation; Temporal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MARINE ENGINEERING; SEDIMENTATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

ASSEMBLAGES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; TEMPERATE REGIONS; VERTICAL SURFACES;

SEDIMENTS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORALLINE ALGA; ORIENTATION; SEDIMENTATION; SUBSTRATE;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; INVERTEBRATE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 19944364861     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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