Settlement and early post-settlement survival of sessile marine invertebrates on topographically complex surfaces: The importance of refuge dimensions and adult morphology

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 137, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 161-171

  Walters, Linda J ^a,b   Wethey, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fouling community; Larval ecology; Refuges; Settlement; Surface heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

FOULING ORGANISM; FOULING ORGANISMS; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; REFUGE; REFUGES; SETTLEMENT; SUBSTRATE HETEROGENEITY; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCES; SURFACE HETEROGENEITY; SURVIVAL;

ASCIDAEA; STYELA PLICATA;

EID: 0029669627     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps137161     Document Type: Article

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