Species diversity in subtidal landscapes: Maintenance by physical processes and larval recruitment

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-69

  Smith, Franz ^a   Witman, Jon D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Epifaunal invertebrates; Fjords; Landscape ecology; Low salinity surface layer; New Zealand; Recruitment; Rocky subtidal; Species diversity; Stratified water column

Indexed keywords

FJORD; HETEROGENEITY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; RECRUITMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

NEW ZEALAND;

ALGAE; ASCIDIACEA; BRYOZOA; ECHINOIDEA; HYDROZOA; INVERTEBRATA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0032942580     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0051:SDISLM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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