Salinity preferences and habitat partitioning between dominant mysids at the Río de la Plata estuary (Uruguay)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 501-506

  Calliari, Danilo ^a,c   Cervetto, Guillermo ^b   Castiglioni, Rafael ^a   Rodríguez, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b Laboratorio de Oceanografía   (Uruguay)

^c GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRUSTACEAN; HABITAT SELECTION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

RIO DE LA PLATA; SOUTH AMERICA;

MYSIDA; MYSIDOPSIS TORTENSEI; NEOMYSIS AMERICANA;

EID: 34247507785     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407055038     Document Type: Article

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