Within- and between-plant distribution of harpacticoid copepods in a North Atlantic bed of Laminaria ochroleuca

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 309-316

  Arroyo, Nina Larissa ^a,b   Maldonado, Manuel ^c   Walters, Keith ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d Wall College of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMEIRIDAE; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; DACTYLOPUSIA TISBOIDES; DACTYLOPUSIA VULGARIS; DIOSACCIDAE; ECTINOSOMATIDAE; HARPACTICIDAE; HARPACTICOIDA; LAMINARIA; LAMINARIA OCHROLEUCA; PARADACTYLOPODIA; PARATHALESTRIS CLAUSI; POECILOSTOMATOIDA; SIPHONOSTOMATOIDA; THALESTRIDAE; TISBIDAE;

EID: 33644909065     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315406013166     Document Type: Article

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