Spatial and seasonal variability of the macrobenthic fauna in Mediterranean solar saltworks ecosystems

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Evagelopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Koutsoubas, Drosos ^a   Basset, Alberto ^b   Pinna, Maurizio ^b   Dimitriadis, Charalampos ^a   Sangiorgio, Franca ^b   Barbone, Enrico ^b   Maidanou, Maria ^a,c   Koulouri, Panayota ^c   Dounas, Costas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Confinement; Macrobenthic fauna; Mediterranean Sea; Regional scale; Salinity gradient; Solar saltworks; Spatial and seasonal variability; Water framework directive

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ECOSYSTEM; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POLICY ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER PLANNING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 51649085059     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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