Mud volcanoes in the Mediterranean Sea are hot spots of exclusive meiobenthic species

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 260-272

  Zeppilli, Daniela ^a   Mea, Marianna ^a   Corinaldesi, Cinzia ^a   Danovaro, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURES; BENTHIC ECOSYSTEMS; COLD SEEPS; COMBINED EFFECT; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FLUID EMISSIONS; FUNCTIONAL BIODIVERSITY; HOT SPOT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEIOFAUNA; MUD VOLCANOES; RARE TAXA; SEA FLOOR; SLOPE SEDIMENT; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ASSOCIATED GAS; BIODIVERSITY; DOMES; ECOSYSTEMS; GAS EMISSIONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEEPAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VOLCANOES;

ABUNDANCE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD SEEP; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EMISSION; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; HOT SPOT; MEIOFAUNA; MUD VOLCANO; NEMATODE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEEPAGE; SLOPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CUMACEA; HYDROZOA; NEMATODA; TANAIDAE;

EID: 80052479958     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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