Pollution reduces native diversity and increases invader dominance in marine hard-substrate communities

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 329-342

  Piola, Richard F ^a   Johnston, Emma L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Biological invasions; Native diversity; Non indigenous species (NIS); Pollution; Sessile invertebrate community

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HARBOR; HEAVY METAL; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE POLLUTION; NATIVE SPECIES; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 38849204992     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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