沿海滩涂湿地生态系统, 典型的生态脆弱区, 既是地球表面最为活跃的自然区域,
又承载着人类的生存与发展, 其生态环境面临着巨大压力. 在社会经济发展和人口增长的推动下 …

In the early 1980s, a strategy for graphical representation of multivariate (multi‐species)
abundance data was introduced into marine ecology by, among others, Field, et al.(1982). A …

The method of choice for multivariate representation of community structure is often non-
metric multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). This has great flexibility in accomn~ odating …

Few macrobenthic studies have dealt simultaneously with the two major gradients in
estuarine benthic habitats: the salinity gradient along the estuary (longitudinal) and the …

Commercial fishing is one of the most important human impacts on the marine benthic
environment. One such impact is through disturbance to benthic habitats as fishing gear …

Benthic soft-sediment organisms generally show strong relationships with the grain-size
characteristics of the sediments they inhabit. These relationships, when characterised from …

Epipelic diatoms represented the dominant microphy tobenthos on the intertidal mudflats of
the Severn Estuary, south-western Britain. Algal biomass (measured as chlorophyll a …

This study aims at contributing to the development of statistical models to predict
macrobenthic species response to environmental conditions in estuarine ecosystems …

Twenty attributes of 18 mudflats from North-west Europe have been analysed statistically to
establish a classification scheme. Correlation analysis, multidimensional scaling and cluster …

Physical disturbance in soft sediment habitats disrupts the sediment structure and can lead
to the death or emigration of resident biota. Current methods used to quantify the response …