Strategies for life in flow: Tenacity, morphometry, and probability of dislodgment of two Mytilus species

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 159, Issue , 1997, Pages 197-208

  Bell, Emily C ^a,b   Gosline, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Attachment strength; Biomechanics; Byssal thread; Hydrodynamic force; Intertidal; Mussel; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ATTACHMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MUSSEL; SESSILE SPECIES; WATER VELOCITY; WAVE ACTION;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; MYTILIDAE; MYTILUS; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS;

EID: 0031590597     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps159197     Document Type: Article

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