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Facing the future: the importance of substratum features for ecological engineering of artificial habitats in the rocky intertidal

Louise B. Firth A B H I , Freya J. White B , Meredith Schofield B , Mick E. Hanley C , Michael T. Burrows D , Richard C. Thompson E , Martin W. Skov B , Ally J. Evans F , Pippa J. Moore F and Stephen J. Hawkins B G H
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A School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL8 4AA, UK.

B School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5AB, UK.

C School of Biological Sciences, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.

D Department of Ecology, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA, UK.

E School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.

F Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DA, UK.

G The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK.

H Present address: Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Waterfront Campus, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH, UK.

I Corresponding author. Email: louise.firth@plymouth.ac.uk

Marine and Freshwater Research 67(1) 131-143 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF14163
Submitted: 18 June 2014  Accepted: 4 December 2014   Published: 13 July 2015



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