There's more to the picture than meets the eye: Sampling microphytobenthos in a heterogeneous environment

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 470-476

  Spilmont, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Seuront, Laurent ^c,d,e   Meziane, Tarik ^f   Welsh, David T ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Intertidal environment; Sampling strategy; Sediment sampling; Spatial variations

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; EYE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOBENTHOS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SANDBANK; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; ENGLISH CHANNEL; GOLD COAST; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 82955235571     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.10.021     Document Type: Article

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