Short-term changes in nematode communities from an abandoned intense sand extraction site on the Kwintebank (Belgian Continental Shelf) two years post-cessation

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-248

  Vanaverbeke, Jan ^a   Vincx, Magda ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benthos; Community composition; Dredging; Kwintebank; Nematodes; Recovery

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; INTENSE (CO); LIFE HISTORY TRAITS; NEMATODE COMMUNITIES; NEMATODE DENSITY; SAND EXTRACTION; UNIVARIATE;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ABANDONED MINE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTRACTION; NEMATODE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BIOMASS; EXTRACTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; SAND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEMATODA; NORTH SEA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELGIAN SHELF; KWINTEBANK; NORTH SEA;

NEMATODA;

EID: 48549087232     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.02.066     Document Type: Article

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