Topographic complexity and landscape temperature patterns create a dynamic habitat structure on a rocky intertidal shore

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 428, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-12

  Meager, Justin J ^a   Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Green, Mahdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body size spectra; Fractal topography; Habitat structure; Invertebrates; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROCKY SHORE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955646411     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09124     Document Type: Article

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