Temporal patterns of larval settlement of Diadema antillarum (echinodermata: echinoidea) in the Canary Islands using an experimental larval collector

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 271-279

  Hernández, José Carlos ^a   Brito, Alberto ^a   Cubero, Elena ^a   García, Nayra ^a   Girard, Dominique ^a   González Lorenzo, Gustavo ^a   Falcón, Jesús M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; PLANKTON; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SAMPLER; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA;

EID: 33645793023     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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