A latent threat to biodiversity: Consequences of small-scale heterogeneity loss

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1315-1323

  Hewitt, Judi ^a   Thrush, Simon ^a   Lohrer, Andrew ^a   Townsend, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpha; Beta; Biodiversity; Contaminants; Estuary; Gamma; Heterogeneity; Macrofauna; Predictions; Species accumulation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTUARY; FAUNA; HETEROGENEITY; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 77952089467     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9763-7     Document Type: Article

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