Sediment disturbance and loss of beta diversity on subtidal rocky reefs

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2455-2461

  Balata, David ^a   Piazzi, Luigi ^a   Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Disturbance; Environmental and habitat complexity; Habitat heterogeneity; Rocky reef; Sediment; Subtidal algal and invertebrate assemblages

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REEF; ROCKY SHORE; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

ALGA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEDIMENT;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS;

EID: 38449102732     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0053.1     Document Type: Article

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