Patchy recruitment patterns in marine invertebrates: A spatial test of the density-dependent hypothesis in the bivalve Spisula ovalis

Oecologia

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 331-340

  David, Patric ^a   Berthou, Patrick ^b   Noel, Philippe ^b   Jarne, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b IFREMER DRV/PE   (France)

Author keywords

Age structure; Density dependence; Recruitment limitation; Sessile benthos; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INVERTEBRATES; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT;

BIVALVIA; SPISULA OVALIS;

EID: 0030835502     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050243     Document Type: Article

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