Medium-term impacts of hydraulic clam dredgers on a macrobenthic community of the Adriatic Sea (Italy)

Marine Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 401-413

  Morello, Elisabetta B ^a   Froglia, Carlo ^a   Atkinson, R James A ^b   Moore, P Geoffrey ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MACROBENTHOS;

ADRIATIC SEA; ANCONA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; CHAMELEA GALLINA; LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 33646467194     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-0195-y     Document Type: Article

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