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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Main Author: Almeida, Mariana Dias (author)
Format: doctoralThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22230
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/22230