Succession and seasonal variation in the development of subtidal macrobenthic soft-bottom communities off northern Chile

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 180-189

  Pacheco, Aldo S ^a   Laudien, Jürgen ^b,c   Thiel, Martin ^d,e   Oliva, Marcelo ^a   Arntz, Wolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Institute for Applied Ecology GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^e CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Colonization; Disturbance; Macrozoobenthos; Seasonality; Soft bottom Community Recovery; Tolerance Succession Model

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MACROBENTHOS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SUCCESSION;

CHILE;

EID: 77954953378     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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