Patterns of demography for rocky-shore, intertidal invertebrates approaching their geographical range limits: Tests of the abundant-centre hypothesis in south-eastern Australia

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1243-1251

  Hidas, Eszter Z ^a   Ayre, David J ^a   Minchinton, Todd E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

abundant centre hypothesis; biogeography; dispersal; distribution; planktonic larvae; recruitment; size frequency

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COAST; CRUSTACEAN; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GASTROPOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LARVA; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROCKY SHORE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; SNAIL;

AFROLITTORINA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MORULA MARGINALBA; PYRAMIDALIS; TESSEROPORA ROSEA; THORACICA;

EID: 78649552964     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF09317     Document Type: Article

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