Successional patterns on pen shell communities at local and regional scales

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-74

  Munguia, Pablo ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Instituto De Biologia   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Atrina rigida; Benthic community; Colonization; Diversity; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COLONIZATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SCALE EFFECT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT JOE BAY; UNITED STATES;

ATRINA; ATRINA RIGIDA; BIVALVIA; CHRISTIA; PINNIDAE;

EID: 1642564622     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2004.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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