The role of environmental variables in structuring landscape-scale species distributions in seafloor habitats

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1583-1590

  Kraan, C ^a   Aarts, Geert ^a   Van Jaap Meer, D E R ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster models; GEE; Intertidal macrozoobenthos; Inundation time; Landscape scale; Monitoring; Moron's I; Sediment; Spatial autocorrelation; Wadden sea

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; AUTOCORRELATION; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BIVALVE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GRAIN SIZE; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MONITORING; POLYCHAETE; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

CERASTODERMA EDULE; COROPHIUM VOLUTATOR; MACOMA BALTHICA; MARENZELLERIA VIRIDIS; SCOLOPLOS ARMIGER; UROTHOE POSEIDONIS;

EID: 77953270302     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2040.1     Document Type: Article

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