Benthic copepod communities associated with tubeworm and mussel aggregations on the East Pacific Rise

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 397-402

  Gollner, Sabine ^a   Zekely, Julia ^a   Van Dover, Cindy Lee ^b   Govenar, Breea ^c   Le Bris, Nadine ^d   Nemeschkal, Hans Leo ^a   Bright, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Bathymodiolus thermophilus; Community structure; East Pacific Rise; Hydrothermal vent; Meiobenthic copepods; Riftia pachyptila

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; FEEDING; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BATHYMODIOLUS THERMOPHILUS; COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; SIPHONOSTOMATOIDA;

EID: 33846432354     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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