TY - BOOK AU - Gambi,Maria Cristina AU - Dappiano,Marco TI - Mediterranean marine benthos: a manual of methods for its sampling and study T2 - Biologia marina Mediterránea PY - 2004/// CY - Livorno PB - Societá Italiana di Biologia Marina KW - Bentos KW - Ecología marina KW - Sedimentos marinos N1 - Bibliografía N2 - This book represents a handbook Manual which deals with study and sampling methods applied to benthic organisms from a Mediterranean perspective. The Mediterranean Sea, in fact host some unique coastal environments (e.g., Posidonia oceanica beds, coralligenous formations) and it is characterized by unique hydrological, geo-morphological and historical conditions, which differ from any other "oceanic" system of reference. Nevertheless, at a Mediterranean level there is a lack of an organic and integrated corpus of methods to help and guide marine investigators ER -