Artificial hard substrata from the Belgian part of the North Sea and their influence on the distributional range of species

Belgian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-29

  Zintzen, Vincent ^a,b   Massin, Claude ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distribution of species; Epifauna; North Sea; Shipwreck

Indexed keywords

EPIFAUNA; FAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; RANGE EXPANSION; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79851486226     PISSN: 07776276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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