Matching patterns with processes: Predicting the effect of size and mobility on the spatial distributions of the bivalves Macomona liliana and Austrovenus stutchburyi

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 135, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 57-67

  Hewitt, J E ^a   Thrush, S F ^a   Cummings, V J ^a   Pridmore, R D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bivalve; Body size; Mobility; Mollusc; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

AUSTROVENUS STUTCHBURYI; MACOMONA LILIANA;

BODY SIZE; MOBILITY; POPULATION NUMBER; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PATTERN;

EID: 0029669529     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps135057     Document Type: Article

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