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Comparing the severity of disturbance: a metaanalysis of marine macrobenthic community data
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A multivariate method of comparing the severity of disturbance to subtidal macrobenthic communities on a common scale is described. Data on species abundances and biomasses from a variety of stations on the NE Atlantic shelf at which the pollution/disturbance status is known have been aggregated to phylum level and the abundance and biomass data merged using an allometric equation to form a 'production' matrix. An ordination (non-metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling, MDS) of all these data, combined in a single meta-analysis, produces a configuration with disturbance as its major axis. These 50 samples can be used as a training data-set against which the status of communities from new studies can be assessed.
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- Authors
- Warwick, R., & Clarke, K.
- Venue
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Publisher
- Inter-Research Science Center
- Published
- 1993
- Volume
- 92
- Pages
- 221-232
- ISSN
- 0171-8630 (ISSN-L)
- 1616-1599
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- W2031320989
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- 303
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- 7.30
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- en
- Open access
- green
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