Fertilization success and recruitment of dioecious and hermaphroditic fucoid seaweeds with contrasting distributions near their southern limit

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 262, Issue , 2003, Pages 173-183

  Ladah, Lydia ^a,b   Bermudez, Rafael ^a   Pearson, Gareth ^a   Serrão, Ester ^a  

^a Campus de Gambelas   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Brown algae; Distributional limits; External fertilization; Fucus; Gamete release; Mating system; Post settlement mortality; Recruitment; Reproductive ecology

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; DIOECY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HERMAPHRODITE; RECRUITMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEAWEED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; FUCUS; FUCUS SPIRALIS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; HALOPHILA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0344237332     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps262173     Document Type: Article

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