D etection and quantitative analysis of spatial patterns are of primary interest to ecologists
working at large (ie landscape) scales. Landscapes have been viewed historically as …

This paper reviews the ecology of soft‐sediment macro‐invertebrates and, in particular,
evaluates how much progress has been made in the recent literature towards elaborating …

Objective Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common, highly heritable immune‐mediated
arthropathy that occurs in genetically susceptible individuals exposed to an unknown but …

This book provides needed by professional ecologists, other scientists, engineers, planners
and managers to design assessment programmes that can reliably monitor, detect and allow …

Marine soft sediments comprise one of the largest and oldest habitats in the world, yet
remarkably little is known about patterns of species richness. Here I present a short review of …

Quantitative Ecology reviews the manifold ways that scale influences the interpretation of
ecological variation. Ecologists recognize the significance of scale and magnitude in …

Variation (patchiness) in the distribution of organisms and other environmental variables
exists at different spatial scales. This patchiness has important implications for comparative …

There is a growing threat of habitat change in estuarine and coastal regions, yet there are
few models that enable ecologists and resource managers to forecast the response of …

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

Broad-scale anthropogenic disturbances that reduce the density of epifauna and
homogenise surficial sediments can have important consequences for seafloor biodiversity …