Additive partitioning of estuarine benthic macroinvertebrate diversity across multiple spatial scales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 396, Issue , 2009, Pages 283-292

  Josefson, Alf B ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

diversity; diversity; diversity; Additive partitioning; Macroinvertebrates; Rare species; Salinity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIVERSITY INDEX; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RARE SPECIES; SALINITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSITION ZONE; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

EID: 73649105533     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08375     Document Type: Article

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