Contribution of environmental and spatial processes to rocky intertidal metacommunity structure

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 413-422

  Okuda, Takehiro ^a,b,e   Noda, Takashi ^b   Yamamoto, Tomoko ^c   Hori, Masakazu ^d   Nakaoka, Masahiro ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diversity; Ecological traits; Environmental heterogeneity; Macro ecology; Spatial structure; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY; MACROECOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; SANRIKU; TOHOKU;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 77954864399     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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