Estimating lagoonal biodiversity in Greece: Comparison of rapid assessment techniques

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 177-186

  Arvanitidis, Christos ^a   Chatzigeorgiou, Georgios ^a   Koutsoubas, Drosos ^b   Kevrekidis, Theodoros ^c   Dounas, Costas ^a   Eleftheriou, Anastasios ^a   Koulouri, Panayota ^a   Mogias, Athanasios ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Macrofauna; Mediterranean; Multivariate analysis; Taxonomic distinctness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LAGOON;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 24944557295     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-005-0216-8     Document Type: Article

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