The grazing effects of grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, on epiphytic microalgae associated with Spartina alterniflora

Estuaries

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 274-285

  Quiñones Rivera, Zoraida J ^a   Fleeger, John W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; MARSH; SALTMARSH;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PALAEMONETES PUGIO; PHAEOPHYCEAE; RHODOPHYTA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 20344375482     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02732861     Document Type: Article

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