Repeatable sediment associations of burrowing bivalves across six European tidal flat systems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 382, Issue , 2009, Pages 87-98

  Compton, Tanya J ^a,b,c,e   Troost, Tineke A ^a   Drent, Jan ^a   Kraan, Casper ^a,b   Bocher, Pierrick ^d   Leyrer, Jutta ^a,b   Dekinga, Anne ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Wildlife Research Centre   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

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

Author keywords

German Wadden Sea; Habitat suitability model; Logistic regression; Species distribution; The Wash

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIVALVE; BURROWING ORGANISM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; JUVENILE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TIDAL FLAT;

AIGUILLON BAY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MARENNES-OLERON BAY; NORTH SEA; POITOU-CHARENTES; THE WASH; UNITED KINGDOM; WADDEN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; MACOMA BALTHICA; SCROBICULARIA PLANA;

EID: 66649094824     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07964     Document Type: Article

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