Temporal variation of Tubularia indivisa (Cnidaria, Tubulariidae) and associated epizoites on artificial habitat communities in the North Sea

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 405-420

  Zintzen, Vincent ^a,b   Norro, Alain ^a   Massin, Claude ^a   Mallefet, Jérôme ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; HABITAT; INVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CRUSTACEA; JASSA; TUBULARIA INDIVISA; TUBULARIIDAE;

EID: 36849089575     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0819-5     Document Type: Article

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