Spatial trends in community richness, diversity, and evenness across rocky intertidal environmental stress gradients in eastern Canada

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 342, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-14

  Scrosati, Ricardo ^a   Heaven, Christine ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Elevation; Environmental stress gradient; Evenness; Ice scour; Richness; Rocky intertidal; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 34548137812     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps342001     Document Type: Article

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