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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Effects of non-native turf-forming Rhodophyta on mobile macro-invertebrate assemblages in the north-western Mediterranean Sea

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Pages 430-437 | Accepted 17 Jun 2014, Published online: 06 Dec 2014

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