Spatial changes in a macrozoobenthic community along environmental gradients in a shallow brackish lagoon facing Sendai Bay, Japan

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 674-684

  Kanaya, Gen ^a   Kikuchi, Eisuke ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

brackish lagoon; community composition; multivariate analysis; salinity gradients; sediment properties; zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRAIN SIZE; ISOPOD; LAGOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DENSITY; SALINITY; SHALLOW WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI BAY; TOHOKU;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CYATHURA MUROMIENSIS; HEDISTE; HETEROMASTUS; MACOMA; NOTOMASTUS; NUTTALLIA OLIVACEA; POLYCHAETA; PRIONOSPIO JAPONICA;

EID: 44349157797     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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