Congruence in demersal fish, macroinvertebrate, and macroalgal community turnover on shallow temperate reefs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 287-299

  Thomson, Russell J ^a   Hill, Nicole A ^a   Leaper, Rebecca ^a   Ellis, Nick ^b   Pitcher, C Roland ^b   Barrett, Neville S ^a   Edgar, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Biological surrogacy; Coastal planning; Gradient forest; Marine biodiversity; Prediction; Random forest; Species turnover; Tasmania

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATABASE; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MACROALGA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PREDICTION; REEF; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TURNOVER;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; CORAL REEF; DEMOGRAPHY; FISH; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAWEED;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CORAL REEFS; DEMOGRAPHY; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; SEAWEED;

EID: 84899508637     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1549.1     Document Type: Article

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