Testing the intermediate disturbance hypothesis: Response of fouling communities to various levels of emersion intensity

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 278, Issue , 2004, Pages 53-65

  Lenz, Mark ^a   Molis, Markus ^a   Wahl, Martin ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community structure; Disturbance; Diversity; Fouling communities; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Mytilus edulis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; FOULING ORGANISM; HARD-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIVALVIA; MYTILIDAE; MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 6044278325     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps278053     Document Type: Article

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