Seagrass Meadows Modify Drag Forces on the Shell of the Fan Mussel Pinna nobilis

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-67

  Hendriks, Iris E ^a   Cabanellas Reboredo, Miguel ^a   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^b   Deudero, Salud ^c   Duarte, Carlos M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drag forces; Fan mussel; Pinna nobilis; Posidonia oceanica; Seagrass; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIVALVE; CANOPY; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEADOW; OSCILLATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAGRASS; SHELL; SHELTER; SIZE STRUCTURE; THRESHOLD; TIDAL CURRENT; VEGETATION TYPE; WAVE PROPERTY;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; PINNA NOBILIS; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 78650705750     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9309-y     Document Type: Article

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