Seasonal variation in assemblages of mobile epifauna inhabiting three subtidal brown seaweeds in northeastern New Zealand

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 361, Issue , 1997, Pages 25-35

  Taylor, Richard B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphipod; Epifauna; Isopod; Seasonality; Seaweed; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGAE; EPIFAUNA; MACROALGAE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND;

ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANIMALIA; CARPOPHYLLUM; ECKLONIA; ECKLONIA RADIATA; FUCALES; ISOPODA; LAMINARIA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0031398557     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003182523274     Document Type: Article

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