Species richness and diversity in different functional groups across environmental stress gradients: A model for marine rocky shores

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 151-161

  Scrosati, Ricardo A ^a   van Genne, Barbara ^b   Heaven, Christine S ^a   Watt, Cortney A ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CARNIVORE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FILTER FEEDER; HERBIVORE; MACROALGA; ROCKY SHORE; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 79952399436     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06119.x     Document Type: Article

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