Visualization of seawater flow around morphologically distinct forms of the giant kelp Macrocystis integrifolia from wave-sheltered and exposed sites

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 156-163

  Hurd, Catriona L ^a,b   Stevens, Craig L ^a,c   Laval, Bernard E ^a,d   Lawrence, G A ^a   Harrison, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS INTEGRIFOLIA; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA;

EID: 0030864598     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.1.0156     Document Type: Article

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