Morphology and in situ growth rates of plants of ascophyllum nodosum (phaeophyta) from different shore levels and responses of plants to vertical transplantation

European Journal of Phycology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-202

  Stengel, Dagmar ^a,b   Dring, Matthew ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Adaptation; Ascophyllum nodosum; Climatic factors; Fucoid; In situ growth; Littoral zonation; Morphology; Survival; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; BROWN ALGAE; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; SHORE LEVEL; TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION EXPERIMENT;

UK, NORTHERN IRELAND, COUNTY DOWN, STRANGFORD LOUGH;

ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM;

EID: 0031284623     PISSN: 09670262     EISSN: 14694433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09670269710001737129     Document Type: Article

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