Mobile epifauna inhabiting the invasive Sargassum muticum and two local seaweeds in northern Spain

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-149

  Viejo, Rosa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Epifauna; Invasion; Mesograzers; Sargassum muticum

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AQUATIC PLANT; EPIFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION;

ALGA; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHORDATA; COELENTERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINODERM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROPOD; NONHUMAN; SEAWEED; SPAIN;

SPAIN;

CYSTOSEIRA NODICAULIS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; SARGASSUM MUTICUM;

EID: 0033032025     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(99)00011-X     Document Type: Article

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