Latitudinal, longitudinal and bathymetric patterns of abundance, biomass of metazoan meiofauna: importance of the rare taxa and anomalies in the deep Mediterranean Sea
Quantitative information on the spatial distribution of meiofaunal abundance, biomass and biodiversity (as richness of higher taxa) is summarised from 476 sites of the deep- Mediterranean Sea, at depths ranging from ca. 200 to 4617 m. Meiofaunal abundance (46531 and 30624 ind 10 cm2 at 200–1000 and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Advances in Oceanography and Limnology |
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| Online Access: | http://pagepressjournals.org/index.php/aiol/article/view/5299 |