Scale-dependent distribution of soft-bottom infauna and possible structuring forces in low diversity systems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 426, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-28

  Kraufvelin, Patrik ^a   Perus, Jens ^a   Bonsdorff, Erik ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Components of variation; Heterogeneity; Hierarchical sampling; Rare species; Scales; Soft sediment communities; Spatial patterns and processes; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; ANNELID; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RARE SPECIES; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; ZOOBENTHOS;

ALAND; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; FINLAND;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; MACOMA; MARENZELLERIA; MONOPOREIA; MYTILUS; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 79953187608     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09038     Document Type: Article

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