The importance of sampling scale in ecology: Kilometer-wide variation in coral reef communities

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 143, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 165-171

  Edmunds, Peter J ^a   Bruno, John F ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral; Heterogeneity; Reefs; Scale

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEFS; MACROALGAE; REEF; SAMPLING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL SCALE;

JAMAICA, DISCOVERY BAY; VIRGIN ISLANDS, ST JOHN;

EID: 0030302581     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps143165     Document Type: Article

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