Fuzziness and Heterogeneity of Benthic Metacommunities in a Complex Transitional System

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bandelj, Vinko ^a   Solidoro, Cosimo ^a   Curiel, Daniele ^b   Cossarini, Gianpiero ^a   Melaku Canu, Donata ^a   Rismondo, Andrea ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b SELC pscarl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUZZY SYSTEM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT METACOMMUNITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGOON; MACROBENTHOS; MACROZOOBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CARBON; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY;

EID: 84871392353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052395     Document Type: Article

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