Context-dependent success of restoration of a key species, biodiversity and community composition

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 479, Issue , 2013, Pages 63-73

  Hewitt, Judi E ^a   Cummings, Vonda J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benthos; Biodiversity; Communities; Dispersal; Intertidal; Restoration; Shellfish

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HARBOR; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; JUVENILE; MACROBENTHOS; SHELLFISH; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

AUSTROVENUS STUCHBURII;

EID: 84875984110     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10211     Document Type: Article

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