Patterns of diversity in soft-bodied meiofauna: Dispersal ability and body size matter

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Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Curini Galletti, Marco ^a   Artois, Tom ^b   Delogu, Valentina ^a   de Smet, Willem H ^c   Fontaneto, Diego ^d,e   Jondelius, Ulf ^d   Leasi, Francesca ^e,f   Martínez, Alejandro ^g   Meyer Wachsmuth, Inga ^d   Nilsson, Karin Sara ^d   Tongiorgi, Paolo ^f   Worsaae, Katrine ^g   Todaro, M Antonio ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BODY SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; ITALY; MARINE SPECIES; MEIOFAUNA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE;

ACOELA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; GASTROTRICHA; NEMERTODERMATIDA; PLATYHELMINTHES; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; INVERTEBRATES;

EID: 84858773326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033801     Document Type: Article

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