Setting Diversity and Community Structure in Subtidal Sediments: The Importance of Biological Disturbance

Interactions Between Macro- and Microorganisms in Marine Sediments

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 217-231

  Widdicombe, Stephen ^a   Austen, Melanie ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interactions between macro and microorganisms in marine sediments

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISMS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEEDING ACTIVITIES; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; MACRO-AND MICROORGANISM; SUBTIDAL SEDIMENTS;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84952777499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/CE060p0217     Document Type: Chapter

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