Small-scale, patchy distributions of infauna in hydrodynamically mobile continental shelf sands: Do ripple crests and troughs support different communities?

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2222-2233

  Ramey, Patricia A ^a   Grassle, Judith P ^a   Grassle, J Frederick ^a   Petrecca, Rosemarie F ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat; Macrofauna; Polygordius; Rippled beds; Spisula; Topography

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FAUNA; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RIPPLE; SEDIMENT CORE; SHELF SEDIMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

NEMERTEA; POLYCHAETA; POLYGORDIUS; SPISULA; SPISULA SOLIDISSIMA;

EID: 70349873520     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.08.020     Document Type: Article

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