Spatial organization of a sedimentary macrobenthic community located on the West African Equatorial margin

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2292-2298

  Brind'Amour, Anik ^a   Menot, Lénaïck ^a   Galéron, Joëlle ^a   Crassous, Philippe ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

BIOZAIRE; Habitat patches; Macrobenthic communities; Multiscale analyses; PCNM; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FINE SEDIMENTS; HABITAT PATCHES; MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; MULTISCALE VARIABILITY; MULTISCALES; PRINCIPAL COORDINATES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SAMPLING STATIONS; SIGNIFICANT PATTERNS; SOURCES OF VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ECOLOGY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MACROBENTHOS; MOLLUSC; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

BIVALVIA; PHOLOIDAE; SCAPHOPODA;

EID: 71749116651     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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