Mesoscale spatial structures of soft-bottom macrozoobenthos communities: Effects of physical control and impoverishment

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 356, Issue , 2008, Pages 215-224

  Włodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^a   Wȩsławski, Jan Marcin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Macrofauna; Scale; Soft bottom; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; FJORD; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MACROBENTHOS; MOBILITY; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 42249083890     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07285     Document Type: Article

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