Comparison of absolute and relative growth patterns among five Pinna nobilis populations along the Tunisian coastline: An information theory approach

Marine Biology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 537-548

  Rabaoui, Lotfi ^a   Tlig Zouari, Sabiha ^a   Katsanevakis, Stelios ^b   Ben Hassine, Oum Kalthoum ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIVALVE; COAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; TYPE SPECIMEN;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

PINNA NOBILIS;

EID: 34548051098     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0707-z     Document Type: Article

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