Modern distribution of salt marsh foraminifera and thecamoebians in the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex, British Columbia, Canada

Marine Geology

Volumn 242, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 39-63

  Vázquez Riveiros, Natalia ^a   Babalola, Lameed Olabode ^a   Boudreau, Robert E A ^a   Patterson, R Timothy ^a   Roe, Helen M ^a,b   Doherty, Christine ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

marsh foraminifera; salt marsh; Seymour Belize Inlet; thecamoebians

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MARINE BIOLOGY; RESERVOIR INLETS; SALTS;

MARSH FORAMINIFERA; SALT MARSH; SEYMOUR-BELIZE INLET; THECAMOEBIANS;

PROTOZOA;

ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; FORAMINIFERA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTOZOAN; SALTMARSH; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BELIZE INLET; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SEYMOUR INLET;

BALTICAMMINA PSEUDOMACRESCENS; CENTROPYXIDAE; CYCLOPYXIS KAHLI; FORAMINIFERA; NEBELA COLLARIS;

EID: 34447274538     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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