Flagging greens: Hydrobiid snails as substrata for the development of green algal mats (Enteromorpha spp.) on tidal flats of North Atlantic coasts

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 199, Issue , 2000, Pages 127-136

  Schories, Dirk ^a   Anibal, Jaime ^b   Chapman, Annelise S ^c   Herre, Elisabeth ^d   Isaksson, Ingela ^e   Lillebø, Ana I ^f   Pihl, Leif ^e   Reise, Karsten ^d   Sprung, Martin ^b   Thiel, Martin ^g  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b Centro de Ciências do Mar   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Algal blooms; Enteromorpha; Epibionts; Eutrophication; Germination; Hydrobia; Tidal flat

Indexed keywords

ALGA GROWTH; CANADA; GERMANY; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HYDROBIA ULVAE; PORTUGAL; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENT; SNAIL; SPORE GERMINATION; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

ALGAL MAT; SNAIL; SUBSTRATE; TIDAL FLAT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROPHYTA; ENTEROMORPHA; GASTROPODA; HALOPHILA; HYDROBIA; HYDROBIA ULVAE; HYDROBIIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; ULVA;

EID: 0034717808     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps199127     Document Type: Article

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