Multicausal environmental severity: A flexible framework for microtidal sandy beaches and the role of polychaetes as an indicator taxon

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 643-653

  Papageorgiou, Nafsika ^a   Arvanitidis, Christos ^b   Eleftheriou, Anastasios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

macrobenthos; Mediterranean Sea; polychaetes; sandy beaches

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEACH; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; MACROECOLOGY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLYCHAETE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

POLYCHAETA;

EID: 33751414872     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2005.11.033     Document Type: Article

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