Quantifying the dynamics of marine invertebrate metacommunities: What processes can maintain high diversity with low densities in the Mediterranean Sea?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3021-3032

  Moritz, Charlotte ^a,b   Loeuille, Nicolas ^a,b   Guarini, Jean Marc ^a,b   Guizien, Katell ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Connectivity; ECEM 07; Mediterranean Sea; Metacommunity; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; CONNECTIVITY; ECEM 07; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METACOMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COMPETITION; DYNAMICS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

RECREATIONAL FACILITIES;

BENTHOS; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; INVERTEBRATE; JUVENILE; LARVA; METAPOPULATION; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 70350173627     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.019     Document Type: Article

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