Assessing the consequences of sea level rise: Effects of changes in the slope of the substratum on sessile assemblages of rocky seashores

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 368, Issue , 2008, Pages 9-22

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Habitat structure; Mediterranean Sea; Recruitment; Resilience; Rocky shores; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGA; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GASTROPOD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; RECOLONIZATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROCKY SHORE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SLOPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TUSCANY;

ALGAE; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; THORACICA;

EID: 54549103610     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07625     Document Type: Article

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