Positive and negative effects of intertidal algal canopies on recruitment and survival of barnacles

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 178, Issue , 1999, Pages 241-249

  Leonard, George H ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal whiplash; Ascophyllum nodosum; Larval delivery; Mechanical abrasion; New England rocky intertidal zone; Recruitment vs post recruitment processes; Semibalanus balanoides

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; UNITED STATES;

ALGA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATOR; RECRUITMENT; SURVIVAL;

RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; SEMIBALANUS BALANOIDES; THORACICA;

EID: 0033577221     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps178241     Document Type: Article

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