Fish assemblages spatially structure along a multi-scale wave energy gradient

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Jordaan, Adrian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Gulf of Maine; Intertidal; Marine ecosystem structure; Physical biological coupling; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FISH BIOLOGY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES POOL; WAVE ENERGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE;

EID: 72449127997     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-009-9537-9     Document Type: Article

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