Demersal faunal assemblages in the deep waters of the eastern Ionian Sea

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 42, Issue 5-8, 2008, Pages 661-672

  Politou, Chrissi Yianna ^a   Mytilineou, Chryssi ^a   D'Onghia, Gianfranco ^b   Dokos, John ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundance; Deep waters; Demersal community; Depth zonation; Eastern Ionian

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CRUSTACEAN; DATA ACQUISITION; DEEP WATER; DEPTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ARGENTINA SPHYRAENA; ARISTAEOMORPHA FOLIACEA; ARISTEUS ANTENNATUS; CHLOROPHTHALMUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FARFANTEPENAEUS AZTECUS; HOPLOSTETHUS MEDITERRANEUS; HYMENOCEPHALUS ITALICUS; PLESIONIKA ANTIGAI; PLESIONIKA EDWARDSII; PLESIONIKA MARTIA;

EID: 46249127610     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930701835613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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