Benthic infaunal community structuring in an acidified tropical estuarine system
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Benthic infaunal community structuring in an acidified tropical estuarine system
BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that increasing ocean acidification (OA) should have strong direct and indirect influences on marine invertebrates. While most theory and application for OA is based on relatively physically-stable oceanic ecological systems, less is known about the effects of acidification on nearshore and estuarine systems. Here, we investigated the structuring of a benthic i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aquatic Biosystems
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2046-9063
DOI: 10.1186/2046-9063-10-11