Resource availability and invasibility in an intertidal macroalgal assemblage

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 313, Issue , 2006, Pages 85-94

  Sánchez, Íñigo ^a   Fernández, Consolación ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bifurcaria bifurcata; Disturbance; Invasibility; Macroalgal assemblage; Marine invasion; Nutrients; Sargassum muticum

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE CYCLE; MACROALGA; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SURVIVORSHIP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33745601694     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps313085     Document Type: Article

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