Competitive interactions between the invasive green alga Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides and native canopy-forming seaweeds in Nova Scotia (Canada)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 325, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-14

  Scheibling, Robert E ^a   Gagnon, Patrick ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides; Community dynamics; Competition; Facilitation; Invasive species; Kelp; Membranipora membranacea; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RESPONSE; INVASIVE SPECIES; KELP FOREST; NATIVE SPECIES; SEAWEED; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

ALGAE; BRYOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; CODIUM FRAGILE; DESMARESTIA; DESMARESTIA ACULEATA; DESMARESTIA VIRIDIS; LAMINARIA; LAMINARIA DIGITATA; LAMINARIA LONGICRURIS; LAMINARIALES; MEMBRANIPORA MEMBRANACEA;

EID: 33845424532     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps325001     Document Type: Article

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