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