Environmental heterogeneity and benthic macroinvertebrate guilds in italian lagoons

Transitional Waters Bulletin

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-63

  Basset, Alberto ^a   Galuppo, Nicola ^a   Sabetta, Letizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community assembly rules; Lagoons; Macro invertebrates; Niche filtering

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549166784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1825229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1285/i1825226Xv1n1p48     Document Type: Article

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