Population characteristics of four deep-water pandalid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) in the northern Aegean Sea (NE Mediterranean)

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 42, Issue 31-32, 2008, Pages 2079-2093

  Vafidis, Dimitris ^a   Leontarakis, Panos K ^b   Dailianis, Thanos ^c   Kallianiotis, Argyris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Length weight relationship; Pandalidae; Population structure; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP WATER; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEX RATIO; TRAWLING;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CARIDEA; CHLOROTOCUS CRASSICORNIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PANDALIDAE; PLESIONIKA ANTIGAI; PLESIONIKA HETEROCARPUS; PLESIONIKA MARTIA;

EID: 49749145279     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222930802254672     Document Type: Article

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