Plant species diversity and composition: Experimental effects on marine epifaunal assemblages

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 224, Issue , 2001, Pages 55-67

  Parker, John D ^a   Duffy, J Emmett ^a   Orth, Robert J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community structure; Epifauna; Macroalgae; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPIFAUNA; MACROALGA; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; GRACILARIA GRACILIS; GRACILARIA VERRUCOSA; HALOPHILA; RHODOPHYTA; VERRUCOSA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0035915522     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps224055     Document Type: Article

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