Biodiversity patterns of free-living marine nematodes in a tropical bay: Cienfuegos, Caribbean Sea

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 179-189

  Armenteros, M ^a,b   Ruiz Abierno, A ^a   Fernandez Garces R ^c   Perez Garcia J A ^a   Diaz Asencio L ^c   Vincx, M ^b   Decraemer, W ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos   (Cuba)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Caribbean Sea; marine ecology; meiobenthos; nematodes; species diversity; tropical environment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAY; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOTYPE; NEMATODE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CIENFUEGOS; CIENFUEGOS BAY; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES;

DAPTONEMA OXYCERCA; NEMATODA; SABATIERIA PULCHRA; TERSCHELLINGIA; TERSCHELLINGIA LONGICAUDATA;

EID: 70350001147     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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