Effects of mean intensity and temporal variance of sediment scouring events on assemblages of rocky shores

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 364, Issue , 2008, Pages 57-66

  Vaselli, Stefano ^a,b,c   Bertocci, Iacopo ^b   Maggi, Elena ^b   Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Climate change; Disturbance; Diversity; Scour; Sedimentation; Temporal variance

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CLIMATE MODELING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ROCKY SHORE; SCOUR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 50149086510     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07469     Document Type: Article

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