Measuring more of β-diversity: Quantifying patterns of variation in assemblage heterogeneity. An insight from marine benthic assemblages

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 140-148

  Bevilacqua, Stanislao ^a   Plicanti, Adriana ^a   Sandulli, Roberto ^b   Terlizzi, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diversity; Assemblage heterogeneity; Impact assessment; Marine invertebrates; Multivariate dispersion; Natural gradients

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; ASSEMBLAGE HETEROGENEITY; ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE; DIRECTIONAL CHANGES; DISPERSION MEASURE; DISTANCE-BASED; DIVERSITY INDEX; DIVERSITY METRICS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE INVERTEBRATES; MARINE ORGANISMS; MEAN VALUES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURAL GRADIENT; STUDY CASE; ASSEMBLAGE HETEROGENEITIES; MULTIVARIATE DISPERSIONS;

MARINE BIOLOGY; WATER ANALYSIS;

DISPERSIONS;

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HETEROGENEITY; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURNOVER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 82655186719     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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