A home away from home: A meiobenthic assemblage in a ship's ballast water tank sediment

Oceanologia

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages 259-265

  Radziejewska, Teresa ^a   Gruszka, Piotr ^b   Rokicka Praxmajer, Joanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ballast tank sediment; Dispersal; Meiobenthos

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DISPERSAL; FAUNA; INVASIVE SPECIES; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; COPEPODA; FORAMINIFERA; GASTROPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; HYDROZOA; NEMATODA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 33751515842     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: 00783234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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