Spatio-temporal biodiversity of soft bottom macrofaunal assemblages in shallow coastal waters exposed to episodic hypoxic events

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Veas, Rodrigo ^a   Hernández Miranda, Eduardo ^a   Quiñones, Renato A ^a   Carrasco, Franklin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Benthos; Biodiversity; Humboldt Current System; Open coasts; Oxygen minimum zones

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL WATERS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; GLOBAL OCEAN; HUMBOLDT CURRENT SYSTEM; LOCAL ZONES; LOW OXYGEN; LOW OXYGEN CONDITIONS; MACROFAUNA; MACROFAUNAL COMMUNITY; MESOSCALE; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; SAMPLING SITE; SEASONAL INTRUSION; SHALLOW BAY; SOFT-BOTTOM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES;

OXYGEN;

OXYGEN;

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL WATER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTACEAN; EPISODIC EVENT; MOLLUSC; POLYCHAETE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHILE; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EQUATORIAL SUBSURFACE WATERS; HUMBOLDT CURRENT SYSTEM; HYPOXIA; MACROFAUNA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHILE; CRUSTACEA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MOLLUSCA; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCHAETA; SALINITY; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

CHILE;

CRUSTACEA; ITATA; MOLLUSCA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84861673014     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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