Seasonal community structure of the molluscan macrofauna at the marine-lagoonal environmental transition at Kalloni solar saltworks (Lesvos Island, NE Aegean Sea, Greece)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 42, Issue 5-8, 2008, Pages 597-618

  Evagelopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Koutsoubas, Drosos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Ecological communities; Mediterranean Sea; Mollusca; Transitional waters ecosystems

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LAGOON; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 46249083323     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930701835563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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