Spatial and temporal variability of sessile benthos in shallow Mediterranean marine caves

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 325, Issue , 2006, Pages 109-119

  Bussotti, Simona ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a   Fraschetti, Simonetta ^a   Belmonte, Genuario ^a   Boero, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation; Distribution patterns; Marine caves; Mediterranean sea; Sessile benthos

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CAVERNICOLOUS SPECIES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SESSILE SPECIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845461146     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps325109     Document Type: Article

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