Artificial substrata in a shallow sublittoral habitat: do they adequately represent natural habitats or the local species pool?

Artificial substrata have been advocated as tools which have considerable potential for monitoring both natural and anthropogenic effects on invertebrate communities of shallow coastal environments. In this experiment, community structure was compared between two dominant natural algal habitats (kel...

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Published in:	Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology Vol. 277; no. 1; pp. 25 - 41
Main Authors:	Smith, Stephen D.A, Rule, Michael J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 18.09.2002 Elsevier Science
Subjects:	Animal, plant and microbial ecology Applied ecology Artificial substrata Biodiversity Biological and medical sciences Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife Environmental degradation: ecosystems survey and restoration Epifauna Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Recruitment Surrogates South Pacific Pacific Ocean Tasman Sea Australia Oceania Artificial substrata Biodiversity Epifauna Surrogates Recruitment Community structure Fauna Algae Method Spatial variation Artificial substrate Coastal zone Marine environment Animal community Population recruitment Habitat Invertebrata Environmental monitoring Colonization Thallophyta
ISSN:	0022-0981, 1879-1697
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