Submarine canyons as the preferred habitat for wood-boring species of Xylophaga (Mollusca, Bivalvia)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-187

  Romano, C ^a   Voight, J R ^b   Company, J B ^c   Plyuscheva, M ^a   Martin, D ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSCS; SUBMARINES; SUBSTRATES; WOOD;

CANYON WALLS; IMMERSION TIME; MORPHOTYPES; NW MEDITERRANEAN; ORGANIC SUBSTRATE; SUBMARINE CANYON; WOOD BORINGS; WOOD TYPES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; CONIFEROUS TREE; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT TYPE; MORPHOTYPE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE CANYON; SUBSTRATE;

COMPUTERS; SUBSTRATES; WOOD;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; XYLOPHAGA;

EID: 84888041581     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.028     Document Type: Article

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