The role of habitat heterogeneity in structuring the community of intertidal free-living marine nematodes

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1741-1753

  Gingold, Ruth ^a   Mundo Ocampo, Manuel ^b   Holovachov, Oleksandr ^b   Rocha Olivares, Axayácatl ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACH; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; HETEROGENEITY; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MEIOFAUNA; MICROHABITAT; NEMATODE; SANDBAR; TAXONOMY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; ZONATION;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

NEMATODA;

EID: 77954500619     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1447-z     Document Type: Article

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