Quantifying scale in ecology: Lessons from a wave-swept shore

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 513-532

  Denny, Mark W ^a   Helmuth, Brian ^a,b   Leonard, George H ^a,c   Harley, Christopher D G ^a   Hunt, Luke J H ^a   Nelson, Elizabeth K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f noise; California; Rocky intertidal ecology; Scale; Scaling; Spatial pattern; Spatial statistics; Spectral analysis; Temporal pattern; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MODEL; ROCKY SHORE; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVE ACTION;

CALIFORNIA; MUSSEL POINT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4444349045     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4043     Document Type: Article

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