Monitoring deep Mediterranean rhodolith beds

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 549-561

  Basso, Daniela ^a   Babbini, Lorenza ^b   Kaleb, Sara ^c   Bracchi, Valentina A ^a   Falace, Annalisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

algae; benthos; biodiversity; EU marine strategy; habitat mapping; sublittoral

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CALCAREOUS ALGA; CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RED ALGA; RHODOLITH; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE;

EID: 84952361676     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2586     Document Type: Review

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