Oysters as habitat for limpets in a temperate mangrove forest

Austral Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-170

  Minchinton, Todd E ^a,b   Ross, Pauline M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Commensalism; Epibiota; Homing behaviour; Marine invertebrates; Patelloida mimula; Population dynamics; Saccostrea commercialis; Territoriality, zonation

Indexed keywords

EID: 18044363510     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.1999.241959.x     Document Type: Article

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