Small-scale association measures in epibenthic communities as a clue for allelochemical interactions

Oecologia

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 351-360

  Turon, Xavier ^a   Becerro, Mikel A ^a   Uriz, Maria J ^b   Llopis, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Association; Epibenthic communities; Monte Carlo methods; Spatial competition

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; BENTHOS; COMPETITION; EPIBENTHOS; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS; SPONGE; SUBTIDAL COMMUNITY;

SPAIN;

CRAMBE CRAMBE; PORIFERA;

EID: 0029660666     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00334661     Document Type: Article

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