Life on the edge: Conspecific attraction and recruitment of populations to disturbed habitats

Oecologia

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-52

  Minchinton, Todd E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Gregarious settlement; Marine invertebrates; Patch dynamics; Rocky intertidal seashores

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CONSPECIFIC ATTRACTION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; RECRUITMENT; ROCKY SHORE; ROCKY SHORES;

GALEOLARIA CAESPITOSA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0030619624     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050206     Document Type: Article

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