Macroalgal community response to re-oligotrophication in Saronikos Gulf

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 472, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-85

  Tsiamis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Panayotidis, Panayotis ^a   Salomidi, Maria ^a   Pavlidou, Alexandra ^a   Kleinteich, Julia ^c   Balanika, Katerina ^a,b   Küpper, Frithjof C ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cystoseira; Eastern Mediterranean; European Water Framework Directive; Greece; Macroalgae; Phytobenthos; Ulva

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATA SET; EMBANKMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GREEN ALGA; MACROALGA; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOBENTHOS; POPULATION DECLINE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WASTEWATER;

AEGEAN SEA; ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARONIKOS GULF;

CHLOROPHYTA; CLADOPHORA; CYSTOSEIRA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; SARGASSUM; ULVA;

EID: 84872744536     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10060     Document Type: Article

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