Effects of seasonality, length of immersion, locality and predation on an intertidal fouling assemblage in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-121

  Brown, Kenneth M ^a   Swearingen, David C ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Fouling; Predation; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

FOULING ORGANISMS; IMMERSION; INTERTIDAL ZONE; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT; SEASONALITY;

ARTICLE; BARNACLE; BRYOZOA; CAGE; ESTUARY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PREDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GULF OF MEXICO;

BALANUS EBURNEUS; BIVALVIA; BRYOZOA; CIRRIPEDIA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; MEMBRANIPORA SAVARTII;

EID: 0031810395     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(97)00217-7     Document Type: Article

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