Recruitment of sessile marine invertebrates on Hawaiian macrophytes: Do pre-settlement or post-settlement processes keep plants free from fouling?

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 813-839

  Walters, Linda J ^a,b,c   Smith, Celia M ^a   Hadfield, Michael G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFOULING; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; MACROPHYTE; PLANT DEFENSE; POST-SETTLEMENT PROCESS; RECRUITMENT; SESSILE SPECIES;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BRYOZOA; BUGULA; BUGULA NERITINA; HALOPHILA; HAWAIIA; HYDROIDES; HYDROIDES ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NERITINA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 0345358458     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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