Biodiversity response to experimental induced hypoxic-anoxic conditions in seagrass sediments

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-54

  Gambi, Cristina ^a   Bianchelli, Silvia ^a   Pérez, Marta ^b   Invers, Olga ^b   Ruiz, Joan Manuel ^c   Danovaro, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Hypoxic anoxic conditions; Metazoan meiofauna; Nematodes; Posidonia oceanica

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANOXIC SEDIMENT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MEADOW; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; SEAGRASS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOLERANCE;

CHROMADORELLA; COPEPODA; DESMOSCOLEX; METAZOA; NEMATODA; POLYSIGMA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 58349113829     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9433-1     Document Type: Article

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