Community assembly of benthic invertebrates on island-like marine hard substrata

Most of the seafloor is soft sediment, so hard substrata are isolated and island-like. In this dissertation, I explore how species distribution patterns on isolated marine hard substrata resemble terrestrial island communities, drawing on classical island biogeography theory and assembly rules, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meyer, Kirstin
Other Authors: Young, Craig
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20686