Spatial and temporal variations of assemblages in a Mediterranean coralligenous reef and relationships with surface orientation

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-272

  Virgilio, Massimiliano ^a   Airoldi, Laura ^a   Abbiati, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; SEAWEED; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BRYOZOA; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; INVERTEBRATA; MESOPHYLLUM LICHENOIDES; PEYSSONNELIA RUBRA;

EID: 33646498976     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-006-0100-2     Document Type: Article

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