Food preferences of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, central-east Atlantic Ocean)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 845-849

  Tuya, F ^a   Martin J A ^a   Reuss, G M ^a   Luque, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; ECHINODERM; FOOD PREFERENCE;

CANARY ISLANDS; GRAN CANARIA;

ABIES; ALGAE; CYSTOSEIRA; CYSTOSEIRA ABIES MARINA; CYSTOSEIRA ABIES-MARINA; DIADEMA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; DYCTIOTA; DYCTIOTA DYCHOTOMA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; HALOPTERIS FILICINA; INVERTEBRATA; LOBOPHORA VARIEGATA; PADINA; PADINA PAVONICA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0035209459     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315401004672     Document Type: Article

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