Changes in the macrozoobenthos of the intertidal zone at Helgoland (German Bight, North Sea): A survey of 1984 repeated in 2002

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-223

  Reichert, Katharina ^a,b   Buchholz, Friedrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helgoland; Indications of change; Invertebrate communities; North Sea; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ZOOBENTHOS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; HELGOLAND; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

ALGAE; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; FUCUS; FUCUS SERRATUS; GASTROPODA; HALIDRYS SILIQUOSA; INVERTEBRATA; LITTORINA LITTOREA; MASTOCARPUS STELLATUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; PHAEOPHYCEAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM MUTICUM;

EID: 33747730167     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-006-0037-4     Document Type: Article

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