Effect of physical disturbance on the soft sediment benthic macrophyte and invertebrate community in the northern Baltic Sea

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. A, 2011, Pages 209-219

  Herkül, Kristjan ^a,b   Kotta, Jonne ^a   Pärnoja, Merli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79953242719     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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