Assessing the relationship between multivariate community structure and environmental variables

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 143, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 303-306

  Diniz Filho, J A F ^a   Bini, L M ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assessing community structure; environment relationship

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030302518     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps143303     Document Type: Article

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