Historical versus contemporary measures of seaweed biodiversity in the Bay of Fundy

Botany

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1066-1076

  Bates, Colin R ^a   Saunders, Gary W ^a   Chopin, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Change; Historical data; Intertidal; Monitoring; Seaweed

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BENTHOS; HERBARIUM; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; SEAWEED; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 73349106855     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B09-067     Document Type: Article

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