Seasonal variation of the macrozoobenthic community structure at low salinities in a Mediterranean lagoon (Monolimni Lagoon, Northern Aegean)

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 407-425

  Kevrekidis, Theodoros ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Community structure; Lagoon; Macrozoobenthos; Mediterranean Sea; Salinity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EVROS DELTA;

AMPHIPODA; CARCINUS; CARCINUS AESTUARII; CILIOPHORA; COROPHIUM; COROPHIUM INSIDIOSUM; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; GOBIIDAE; HYDROBIIDAE; POLYDORA; POLYDORA CILIATA; PORTUNIDAE; RUPPIA; RUPPIA MARITIMA; VENTROSIA;

EID: 4944244968     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200310703     Document Type: Article

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