Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-651-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-651-2017
Research article
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09 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 09 Feb 2017

Evaluating environmental drivers of spatial variability in free-living nematode assemblages along the Portuguese margin

Lidia Lins, Frederik Leliaert, Torben Riehl, Sofia Pinto Ramalho, Eliana Alfaro Cordova, André Morgado Esteves, and Ann Vanreusel

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GenBank D. A. Benson, I. Karsch-Mizrachi, D. J. Lipman, J. Ostell, and D. L. Wheeler https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm929

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Anthropogenic impacts in the deep sea are regarded as high disturbers of the deep-sea bottom. This study focus in trying to understand the impact of disturbance in the ecosystem and how important functions, such as hydrodynamics and surface primary productivity, affect benthic organisms. Our results showed that high sediment variability due to hydrodynamics, and consequently disturbance, combined with high resource availability are probably the main factors promoting deep-sea species coexistence
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