Variation in burrow-wall micromorphologies of select intertidal invertebrates along the pacific northwest coast, USA: Behavioral and diagenetic implications

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-72

  Zorn, M E ^a   Gingras, M K ^b   Pemberton, S G ^b  

^a Imperial Oil Ltd Resources Limited   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BURROWING ORGANISM; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DIAGENESIS; GRAIN SIZE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MUCUS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

ARENICOLA MARINA; CIRRIFORMIA LUXURIOSA; CLYMENELLA; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; HETEROMASTUS FILIFORMIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEREIS VIRENS; PHORONOPSIS VIRIDIS; SACCOGLOSSUS BROMOPHENOLOSUS; UPOGEBIA PUGETTENSIS;

EID: 75449100156     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-026r     Document Type: Article

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