Latitudinal, longitudinal and bathymetric patterns of abundance, biomass of metazoan meiofauna: Importance of the rare taxa and anomalies in the deep Mediterranean Sea

Advances in Oceanography and Limnology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 167-197

  Gambi, Cristina ^a   Lampadariou, Nikolaos ^b   Danovaro, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Deep sea; Mediterranean Sea; Meiofauna; Rare taxa; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEEP SEA; MEIOFAUNA; METAZOAN; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AMPHIPODA; CNIDARIA; COPEPODA; GASTROPODA; GASTROTRICHA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 84864333210     PISSN: 19475721     EISSN: 1947573X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475721.2010.483337     Document Type: Article

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