Biogeographical patterns of rocky intertidal communities along the Pacific coast of North America

By Carol Blanchette, C. Melissa Miner, P. Raimondi, D. Lohse, Kristen K. Heady, Bernardo R. Broitman. 2008

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Aim  Our aim in this paper is to present the first broad‐scale quantification of species abundance for rocky intertidal communities along the Pacific coast of North America. Here we examine the community‐level marine biogeographical patterns in the context of formerly described biogeographical regions, and we evaluate the combined effects of geographical distance and environmental conditions on patterns of species similarity across this region.

Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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