From flatfish to sticklebacks: Assemblage structure of epibenthic fauna in relation to macroalgal blooms

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 335, Issue , 2007, Pages 187-198

  Wennhage, H ^a   Pihl, L ^a  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Epibenthic predators; Fish; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Green macroalgae; Habitat; Nursery ground; Pleuronectes platessa

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLATFISH; GREEN ALGA; HABITAT QUALITY; MACROALGA; SAMPLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ALGAE; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; CRANGON CRANGON; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GOBIIDAE; GOBIUS NIGER; MYSIDACEA; PALAEMON; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; POMATOSCHISTUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 34249055012     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps335187     Document Type: Article

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