Evidence of season-dependency in vegetation effects on macrofauna in temperate seagrass meadows (Baltic Sea)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Włodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^a   Jankowska, Emilia ^a   Kotwicki, Lech ^a   Balazy, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIOMASS; CANOPY; MACROBENTHOS; MACROFAUNA; MACROPHYTE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEAGRASS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEA; SEASON; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904402850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100788     Document Type: Article

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