The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and the benthic community in a coastal Baltic lagoon: Another example of enhancement?

Marine Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2009, Pages 138-150

  Radziejewska, Teresa ^a   Fenske, Christiane ^b   Wawrzyniak Wydrowska, Brygida ^a   Riel, Philip ^b   Woźniczka, Adam ^c   Gruszka, Piotr ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alien species; Baltic sea; Dreissena; Macrobenthos; Meiobenthos; Organic enrichment; Polymorpha; Szczecin lagoon

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIVALVE; COASTAL ZONE; DOMINANCE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MACROBENTHOS; MEIOFAUNA; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SITE EFFECT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

POLAND; SZCZECIN LAGOON; ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE;

ANNELIDA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DREISSENA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS TIGRINUS; MARENZELLERIA NEGLECTA; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); POLYCHAETA;

EID: 78650684516     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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