Effects of megafauna exclusion on nematode assemblages at a deep-sea site

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 332-349

  Gallucci, Fabiane ^a   Fonseca, Gustavo ^a   Soltwedel, Thomas ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological disturbance; Caging experiment; Sediment heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS;

BIOLOGICAL DISTURBANCE; CAGING EXPERIMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT HETEROGENEITY;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEEP SEA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 40149084777     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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