Biogeographical patterns of algal communities in the Mediterranean Sea: Cystoseira crinita-dominated assemblages as a case study

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-152

  Sales, Marta ^a,b   Ballesteros, Enric ^a   Anderson, Marti J ^c   Iveša, Ljiljana ^d   Cardona, Eva ^e  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b IEO Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears ^*  (Spain)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^e Consell Insular de Menorca ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Algal assemblages; Biodiversity; Biogeographical patterns; Cystoseira crinita; Latitude; Mediterranean Sea; Species richness; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIPHYTE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LATITUDE; LINEARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; CYSTOSEIRA CRINITA; HALIPTILON; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 83555177362     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02564.x     Document Type: Article

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