Habitat and bathymetry influence the landscape-scale distribution and abundance of drift macrophytes and associated invertebrates

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 176-184

  Britton Simmons, Kevin H ^a   Rhoades, Alison L ^a   Pacunski, Robert E ^b   Galloway, Aaron W E ^a   Lowe, Alexander T ^a   Sosik, Elizabeth A ^a   Dethier, Megan N ^a   Duggins, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BATHYMETRY; CRUSTACEAN; DEEP WATER; DETRITUS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEAGRASS; SEAWEED; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SUBSTRATE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

INVERTEBRATA; PANDALUS; PANDALUS PLATYCEROS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS FRANCISCANUS;

EID: 84861869219     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.1.0176     Document Type: Article

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