Growth and gonad production of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus in the fucoid bed and algal turf in northern Japan

Marine Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 100-109

  Agatsuma, Yukio ^a   Nakabayashi, Nobuyasu ^b   Miura, Nobuaki ^b   Taniguchi, Kazuya ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Akita Prefectural Fisheries Promotion Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algal turf; Fucoid; Gonad production; Growth; Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus; Sea urchin; Sere

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; GROWTH; REPRODUCTION;

AKITA; ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

ALGAE; CHONDRUS; CHONDRUS OCELLATUS; DICTYOPTERIS DIVARICATA; ECHINOIDEA; HEMICENTROTUS PULCHERRIMUS; LAURENCIA;

EID: 29144499660     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2005.00046.x     Document Type: Review

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