Responses of a Northern Adriatic Ampelisca-Corbula community to seasonality and short-term hydrological changes in the Po river

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 466-476

  N'Siala, Gloria Massamba ^a   Grandi, Valentina ^a   Iotti, Mirko ^a   Montanari, Giuseppe ^b   Prevedelli, Daniela ^a   Simonini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b ARPA Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Macrozoobenthos; Northern Adriatic Sea; River regime; Seasonality; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; RIVERS; STORMS;

MACROZOOBENTHOS; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; RIVER REGIME; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL SCALE;

RIVER POLLUTION;

RIVER WATER;

AMPHIPOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DOMINANCE; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ZOOBENTHOS;

AMPELISCA DIADEMA; ARICIDEA CLAUDIAE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORBULA GIBBA; HYDROLOGY; LEVINSENIA GRACILIS; MARINE SPECIES; NUCULA NUCLEUS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVERS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ADRIATIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PO RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AMPELISCA; AMPELISCA DIADEMA; ARICIDEA CLAUDIAE; CORBULA; CORBULA GIBBA; LEVINSENIA GRACILIS; LUMBRINERIS; NUCULA NUCLEUS;

EID: 53149132370     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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