Effects of herbivores and water quality on Sargassum distribution on the central Great Barrier Reef: Cross-shelf transplants

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 179-192

  McCook, Laurence J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Great Barrier Reef; Herbivore exclusion; Macroalgal distribution; Nutrients; Sargassum; Transplant; Water quality

Indexed keywords

SARGASSUM;

DISTRIBUTION; HERBIVORES; MACROALGAE; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA, GREAT BARRIER REEF; CORAL SEA, GREAT BARRIER REEF;

EID: 0029662830     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps139179     Document Type: Article

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