Effects of benthic grazers on microalgal communities of morphologically different encrusting corallines: Implications for abalone recruits

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 244, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-103

  Day, E ^a   Branch, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Abalone; Diatoms; Encrusting corallines; Grazers; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

CORALLINE ALGA; GRAZING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLLUSC; RECRUITMENT;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS; HALIOTIS CORRUGATA; HALIOTIS MIDAE; MOLLUSCA; PARECHINUS ANGULOSUS; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0037196045     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps244095     Document Type: Article

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