Restoring Intertidal Boulder-Fields as Habitat for "Specialist" and "Generalist" Animals

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 277-285

  Chapman, M Gee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Experimental; Habitat creation; Mollusks; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; COLONIZATION; FAUNA; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT RESTORATION; MOLLUSC; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84857993289     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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