The bioengineer Perumytilus purpuratus (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in central Chile: Biodiversity, habitat structural complexity and environmental heterogeneity

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 417-421

  Prado, Luis ^a   Castilla, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE;

MAGELLAN STRAIT; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; HERE; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PERUMYTILUS; PERUMYTILUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 33644923229     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315406013282     Document Type: Article

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