The spatial pattern of macrozoobenthic communities in the tidal wetlands of Shanghai City

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 5179-5187

  Quan, Wei Min ^a   Zhao, Yun Long ^b   Zhu, Jiang Xing ^a   Shi, Li Yan ^a   Chen, Ya Qu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass; Macrozoobenthos; Shanghai City; Tidal wetlands; Yangtze River estuary

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; MOLLUSC; NUTRIENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; WETLAND; ZOOBENTHOS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

ANNELIDA; AVES; CRUSTACEA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 56049089842     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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