How protective are refuges? Quantifying algal protection in rock crevices

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1163-1177

  Bergey, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Disturbance ecology; Periphyton; Refugia; Substrate roughness; Surface texture

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; PERIPHYTON; REFUGE; TEXTURE;

ALGAE; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 21244459196     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01393.x     Document Type: Article

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