Topographic complexity and landscape temperature patterns create a dynamic habitat structure on a rocky intertidal shore
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Separating the elements of habitat structure: independent effects of habitat complexity and structural components on rocky intertidal gastropods.
It has been difficult to understand the effects of habitat structure on assemblages because the different elements of habitat structure are often confounded. For example, few studies consider that the effects of structural components of a habitat (rocks, trees, pits, pneumatophores) may be separate from the complexity (e.g. surface area {SA}) they create. From prior observations and experiments...
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عنوان ژورنال: Marine Ecology Progress Series
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0171-8630,1616-1599
DOI: 10.3354/meps09124