Spatial relationships between polychaete assemblages and environmental variables over broad geographical scales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^a   Iken, Katrin ^b   Konar, Brenda ^b   Cruz Motta, Juan ^c   Knowlton, Ann ^b   Pohle, Gerhard ^d   Castelli, Alberto ^a   Tamburello, Laura ^a   Mead, Angela ^e   Trott, Tom ^f   Miloslavich, Patricia ^c   Wong, Melisa ^g   Shirayama, Yoshihisa ^h   Lardicci, Claudio ^a   Palomo, Gabriela ⁱ   Maggi, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^d Huntsman Marine Science Centre   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEA POLLUTION; SPECIES INVASION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY;

POLYCHAETA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 77958580135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012946     Document Type: Article

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