Effects of disturbance area on fouling communities from a tropical environment: Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Effects of disturbance area on fouling communities from a tropical environment: Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In marine fouling communities, free space is one of the key limiting resources for settlement of new organisms. In this way, removing biomass through physical disturbances would play an important role in the structure and dynamics of these communities. The disturbance size seems to be a characterist...

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Main Authors: Eduardo de Almeida Xavier, Bernardo Antonio Perez da Gama, Tiago Filgueiras Porto, Bruno Lopes Antunes, Renato Crespo Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2008-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Oceanography
Subjects:
Distúrbio físico
Comunidade incrustante
Área de distúrbio
Hipótese do Distúrbio Intermediário (HDI)
Diversidade
Baía de Guanabara
Physical disturbance
Fouling community
Disturbance area
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH)
Diversity
Guanabara Bay
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