Short-term post-mortality scavenging and longer term recovery after anoxia in the northern Adriatic Sea

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 7647-7659

  Blasnig, M ^a   Riedel, B ^a   Schiemer, L ^a   Zuschin, M ^a   Stachowitsch, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; RECOLONIZATION; SESSILE SPECIES; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84889836125     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-7647-2013     Document Type: Article

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