Biogeographic classification of the Caspian Sea

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 6451-6470

  Fendereski, F ^a,b   Vogt, M ^b   Payne, M R ^b,c   Lachkar, Z ^b,d   Gruber, N ^b   Salmanmahiny, A ^a   Hosseini, S A ^a  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOREGION; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TAXONOMY;

CASPIAN SEA;

EID: 84913573326     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-6451-2014     Document Type: Article

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