The plankton of a shallow submarine cave ('Grotta di Ciolo', Salento Peninsula, SE Italy)

Marine Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 47-59

  Moscatello, Salvatore ^a   Belmonte, Genuario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asexual propagules; Community structure; Hyperbenthos; Marine caves; Mediterranean Sea; Multivariate analysis; Plankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANKTON; SUBMARINE CAVE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PUGLIA; SALENTO PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; HARPACTICOIDA; HEMIMYSIS; MOLLUSCA; MYSIDA; MYSIDACEA; SIRIELLA JALTENSIS;

EID: 34548729732     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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