Keeping things in order: Multivariate direct gradient analysis of a strongly fluctuating benthic community

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-273

  Van Der Meer, Jaap ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation analysis; Direct gradient analysis; Estuarine intertidal communities; Macrozoobenthos; Reduced rank regression

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEPHTHYS; NETHERLANDS; SEDIMENT;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROBENTHOS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

NETHERLANDS;

COROPHIUM;

EID: 0033429159     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-1101(99)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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