Maintenance of species dominance through pulse disturbances to a sessile marine invertebrate assemblage in Port Shelter, Hong Kong

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 226, Issue , 2002, Pages 103-114

  Johnston, Emma L ^a   Keough, Michael J ^a   Qian, Pei Yuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copper; Disturbance; Field experiment; Frequency; Indirect effects; Pulse disturbance; Recruitment; Sessile invertebrates

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COPPER; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; SESSILE SPECIES; SIZE STRUCTURE;

CHINA; HONG KONG; PORT SHELTER;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIACEA; BRYOZOA; HYDROIDA; HYDROIDES; HYDROIDES ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; THORACICA;

EID: 0037204159     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps226103     Document Type: Article

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