Topographic complexity and roughness of a tropical benthic seascape

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Zawada, David G ^a   Piniak, Gregory A ^b   Hearn, Clifford J ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research   (United States)

^c Working Science Consultancies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTAL DIMENSION;

BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; BENTHIC COVER; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; CORAL REEF; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PARAMETERIZING; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SCLERACTINIAN CORALS; SHELF EDGES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHIC COMPLEXITY; TROPICAL ISLAND; WATER FLOWS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BENTHOS; COMPLEXITY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISLAND; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER FLOW; WAVE ENERGY; ANISOTROPY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HARD-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77955210465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043789     Document Type: Article

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