Life history flexibility allows Sargassum polyceratium to persist in different environments subjected to stochastic disturbance events

Coral Reefs

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 670-680

  Engelen, Aschwin H ^a,c   Breeman, Anneke M ^a   Olsen, Jeanine L ^a   Stam, Wytze T ^a   Åberg, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Depth; Life history strategy; Sargassum polyceratium; Stochastic matrix model; Wave disturbance events

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; DEPTH; DISTURBANCE; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT; STOCHASTICITY; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CURACAO; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

ALGAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM POLYCERATIUM;

EID: 28444441949     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-005-0052-y     Document Type: Article

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