Recovery of a subtidal soft-sediment macroinvertebrate assemblage following experimentally induced effects of a harmful algal bloom

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 326, Issue , 2006, Pages 85-98

  Kröger, Kerstin ^a,b   Gardner, Jonathan P A ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^b   Wear, Robert G ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benthic community; Disturbance; Macroinvertebrate assemblage; Multivariate analyses; New Zealand; Recovery; Soft substrate; Wellington Harbour

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TOXIC ORGANISM;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND]; WELLINGTON HARBOUR;

ALGAE;

EID: 33845880420     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps326085     Document Type: Article

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