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SUBMITTER: Gerwing TG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4720360 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gerwing Travis G TG Drolet David D Hamilton Diana J DJ Barbeau Myriam A MA
PloS one 20160120 1
Top-down, bottom-up, middle-out and abiotic factors are usually viewed as main forces structuring biological communities, although assessment of their relative importance, in a single study, is rarely done. We quantified, using multivariate methods, associations between abiotic and biotic (top-down, bottom-up and middle-out) variables and infaunal population/community variation on intertidal mudflats in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, over two years. Our analysis indicated that spatial structural fact ...[more]