Short-term differences in animal assemblages in patches formed by loss and growth of habitat

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 515-521

  Macreadie, Peter I ^a,b   Connolly, Rod M ^c   Keough, Michael J ^a   Jenkins, Gregory P ^a,d   Hindell, Jeremy S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Victorian Marine Science Consortium   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Marine and Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute   (Australia)

^e ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Crowding effect; Fragmentation; Habitat growth; Habitat loss

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRUSTACEAN; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FISH; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PATCH SIZE; SEAGRASS;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 77954857228     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02060.x     Document Type: Article

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