Effect of swash climate and food availability on sandy beach macrofauna along the NW coast of the Iberian Peninsula

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 314, Issue , 2006, Pages 25-33

  Incera, Mónica ^a,b   Lastra, Mariano ^a   López, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beach slope; Biopolymeric carbon; NW Spain; Sandy beaches; Swash climate; Swash Exclusion Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BEACH; BIOMASS; COASTAL ZONE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WAVE RUNUP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33745600809     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps314025     Document Type: Article

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