Littoral coasts of all the islands of the archipelago of the Azores

Zooplankton and zoobenthos morphological parameters; Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed; Zoobenthos dry weight biomass; Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance; Zooplankton and zoobenthos physiological condition parameters; Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts; Zoobenthos taxonomy-related wet weight biomass per unit area of the bed; Zooplankton and zoobenthos development stage parameters

Manual biota samplers

This study was developed with a view to evaluate the state of the populations of limpets on the Archipelago of the Azores. Some of the protocols were extended to the Archipelagos of Madeira and Canaries.

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