Biodiversity in transitional waters: Steeper ecotone, lower diversity

Marine Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL1, 2014, Pages 78-84

  Reizopoulou, Sofia ^a   Simboura, Nomiki ^a   Barbone, Enrico ^b   Aleffi, Floriana ^c   Basset, Alberto ^b   Nicolaidou, Artemis ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c Laboratory of Marine Biology   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benthos; Coastal lagoons; Diversity; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COASTAL LAGOON; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; SALINITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALBANIA; GREECE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84902079605     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12121     Document Type: Article

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