Abundance - Occupancy relationships in macrofauna on exposed sandy beaches: Patterns and mechanisms

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 643-649

  Frost, Matthew T ^a,b   Attrill, Martin J ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^a,c   Foggo, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEACH; GRAIN SIZE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AMPHIPODA; BIVALVIA;

EID: 4544302106     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03860.x     Document Type: Article

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