Role of grazing by sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis in regulating the invasive alga Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides in Nova Scotia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 292, Issue , 2005, Pages 203-212

  Sumi, Catherine B T ^a   Scheibling, Robert E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides; Feeding behaviour; Herbivory; Invasion ecology; Kelp; Laminaria longicruris; Sea urchins; Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROALGA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CODIUM; CODIUM FRAGILE; ECHINOIDEA; LAMINARIA; LAMINARIA LONGICRURIS; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; RHODOPHYTA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 20444470342     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps292203     Document Type: Article

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