Competition of epiphytic nongeniculate corallines (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): Overgrowth is not victory

Phycologia

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 468-471

  Morcom, N F ^a   Ward, S A ^a   Woelkerling, W J ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAURENCIA ELATA; MELOBESIA MEMBRANACEA; MELOBESIA ROSANOFFII; PNEOPHYLLUM FRAGILE;

EID: 0031395365     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-36-6-468.1     Document Type: Article

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