Levels of taxonomic resolution and choice of transformation sufficient to detect community gradients: An approach to hard-substrata benthic studies

Italian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-167

  Mistri, Michele ^a   Rossi, Remigio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Taxonomic resolution; Transformations; Tyrrhenian Sea; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

MONITORING SYSTEM; TAXONOMY; ZOOBENTHOS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 0033875811     PISSN: 11250003     EISSN: 17485851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11250000009356310     Document Type: Article

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