The ups and downs of benthic ecology: Considerations of scale, heterogeneity and surveillance for benthic-pelagic coupling

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 285-286, Issue , 2003, Pages 191-203

  Raffaelli, Dave ^a   Bell, Elanor ^b   Weithoff, Guntram ^b   Matsumoto, Asako ^c   Cruz Motta, Juan Jose ^d   Kershaw, Pete ^e   Parker, Ruth ^e   Parry, Dave ^f   Jones, Malcolm ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BENTHOS; HETEROGENEITY; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0037433257     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(02)00527-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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