Marine sponges of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: Patterns of species distributions, abundance and diversity

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3731-3750

  Fromont, Jane ^a   Vanderklift, Mathew A ^b   Kendrick, Gary A ^c  

^a WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Australia; Dampier Archipelago; Diversity; Marine sponges; Porifera; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPONGE; SUBSTRATE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DAMPIER ARCHIPELAGO; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA; PORIFERA;

EID: 33645817588     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-1871-9     Document Type: Article

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