Deep-sea suprabenthos across the Mediterranean: the influence of environmental drivers on biodiversity and community structure
The Mediterranean Sea is characterized by homeothermia (~14ªC) and a gradient of increasing oligotrophy from west to east which makes it of particular interest to study distribution patterns of deep-sea fauna. Particular oceanographic processes and topographic characteristics vary in different regio...
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| Format: | doctoralThesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22230 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/22230 |