Effects of physical disturbance, isolation and key macrozoobenthic species on community development, recolonisation and sedimentation processes

Oceanologia

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages 267-282

  Herkül, Kristjan ^a,b   Kotta, Jonne ^a   Kotta, Ilmar ^a   Orav Kotta, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Ecosystem functioning; Field experiment; Functional diversity; Physical disturbance

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ISOLATION EFFECT; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; RECOLONIZATION; SEDIMENTATION; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751548300     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: 00783234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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