Interplay of encrusting coralline algae and sea urchins in maintaining alternative habitats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 243, Issue , 2002, Pages 101-109

  Bulleri, Fabio ^a,b   Bertocci, Iacopo ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^a  

^a Dipto Sci dell'Uomo dell'Ambiente   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternative habitats; Encrusting corallines; Mediterranean Sea; Orthogonal manipulation; Sea urchins; Turf forming algae

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; COLONIZATION; CORALLINE ALGA; ECHINODERM; ENCRUSTING ORGANISM; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; REEF;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ACETABULARIA; ACETABULARIA ACETABULUM; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ARBACIA; ARBACIA LIXULA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; PADINA; PADINA PAVONICA; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 0037073384     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps243101     Document Type: Article

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