Salt tolerance and distribution of estuarine benthic macroalgae in the Kattegat-Baltic Sea area

Phycologia

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-23

  Larsen, Anne ^a   Sand Jensen, Kaj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Balthic Sea; Distribution; Macroalgae; Photosynthesis; Salinity; Tolerance; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 30744454816     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/03-99.1     Document Type: Article

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