Effects of water exchange and vegetation on the macroinvertebrate fauna composition of shallow land-uplift bays in the Baltic Sea

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 535-547

  Hansen, Joakim P ^a   Wikström, Sofia A ^a,b   Kautsky, Lena ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AquaBiota Water Research   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Proper; Baltic Sea; biodiversity; Bothnian Sea; ecological succession; lagoons; macrophytes; soft bottom; species composition

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MORPHOMETRY; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SUCCESSION; WATER EXCHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BOTHNIAN SEA; GULF OF BOTHNIA;

BIVALVIA; CRUSTACEA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40849094609     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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