Can low sea urchin densities control macro-epiphytic biomass in a north-east Atlantic maerl bed ecosystem (Bay of Brest, Brittany, France)?

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 867-876

  Guillou, Monique ^a   Grall, Jacques ^a   Connan, Solène ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; EPIPHYTE; EUTROPHICATION; HERBIVORY; RED ALGA;

FRANCE;

ALGAE; ECHINOIDEA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; PSAMMECHINUS MILIARIS; RHODOPHYTA; SPHAERECHINUS GRANULARIS;

EID: 0036775152     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315402006276     Document Type: Article

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