In many terrestrial systems, patchiness involves spatial variation in topography, bedrock, soils, nutrients, or water that affects distribution of plant species, which at least partially ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 54, No. 5 (Sep., 2009), pp. 1530-1540 (11 pages) We used (1) water temperature (a proxy for water movement), (2) chlorophyll (a proxy for phytoplankton), and (3) ...