The effects of colonization by sargassum muticum on tidepool macroalgal assemblages

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 325-340

  Viejo, Rosa M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; FUCALES; PHAEOPHYCEAE; SARGASSUM MUTICUM;

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INTRODUCED PLANT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MACROALGAE; TIDE POOL; TIDE POOLS;

ATLANTIC COAST; SPAIN;

EID: 0030617141     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315400071708     Document Type: Article

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