Importance of timing of panel exposure on the competitive outcome and succession of sessile organisms

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 131, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 191-203

  Nandakumar, Kanavillil ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

PVC panels; Sessile organisms; Space competition; Time of initiation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATE; COLONIZATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS; PVC PANEL; SESSILE ORGANISM; SESSILE SPECIES; SUCCESSION;

JAPAN, KUMAMOTO, TOMIOKA BAY; JAPAN, KYUSHU, TOMIOKA BAY;

EID: 0029667764     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps131191     Document Type: Article

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