Anthropogenic factors and habitat complexity influence biodiversity but wave exposure drives species turnover of a subtropical rocky inter-tidal metacommunity

Marine Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 64-76

  Bloch, Christopher P ^a   Klingbeil, Brian T ^b  

^a BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impacts; Biodiversity; Community structure; Habitat heterogeneity; Metacommunity; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; ROCKY SHORE; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ALGAE; GLEASONIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84958643295     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12250     Document Type: Article

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