The use of sandstone blocks to test hypotheses about colonization of intertidal boulders

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 415-423

  Chapman, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; COLONIZATION; EPIBIONT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SESSILE SPECIES; SUBSTRATE;

ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; GASTROPODA; POLYPLACOPHORA;

EID: 0037391370     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315403007276h     Document Type: Article

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