Relationships between meiofaunal biodiversity and prokaryotic heterotrophic production in different tropical habitats and oceanic regions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Pusceddu, Antonio ^a   Gambi, Cristina ^a   Corinaldesi, Cinzia ^a   Scopa, Mariaspina ^a,b   Danovaro, Roberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL ABRUZZO E DEL MOLISE G CAPORALE   (Italy)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CARIBBEAN SEA; CELEBES SEA; COASTAL WATERS; CORAL REEF; HABITAT; HETEROTROPHY; MANGROVE; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RED SEA; SEA; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; NEMATODA; OCEANS AND SEAS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84897403456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091056     Document Type: Article

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