The importance of juveniles in structuring a littoral macrobenthic community

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 355, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Burkovsky, I V ^a   Udalov, A A ^a   Stoljarov, A P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Community structure; Juvenile and adult macrobenthos; Life cycles; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85086291983     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1907-0_1     Document Type: Article

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