How fast do marine invertebrates burrow?

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 280-286

  Gingras, Murray K ^a   Pemberton, S George ^a   Dashtgard, Shahin ^b   Dafoe, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arthropod burrows; Bivalve traces; Burrowing rates; Echinoderm traces

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIVALVE; BURROWING; DEPOSIT FEEDER; ECHINODERM; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FILTER FEEDER; POPULATION DENSITY; SHALLOW WATER; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TIDAL FLAT;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; OGEECHEE ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BIVALVIA; CRUZIANA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; SKOLITHOS;

EID: 56349094215     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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