Meiofauna in the gollum channels and the whittard canyon, celtic margin-how local environmental conditions shape nematode structure and function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ingels, Jeroen ^a   Tchesunov, Alexei V ^b   Vanreusel, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTOMONEMA SOUTHWARDORUM; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCKING DENSITY; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE;

ASTOMONEMA; ASTOMONEMA SOUTHWARDORUM; GOLLUM; MONHYSTERIDA; NEMATODA; PROKARYOTA; SIPHONOLAIMIDAE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; NEMATODA;

EID: 79956207567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020094     Document Type: Article

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