Effect of grazing on coralline algae in seasonal, tropical, low-shore rock pools: Spatio-temporal variation in settlement and persistence

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 326, Issue , 2006, Pages 99-113

  Wai, Tak Cheung ^a   Williams, Gray A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crustose coralline algae; Herbivory; Persistence; Settlement; Spatial and temporal variation; Summer heat stress

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CORAL BLEACHING; CORALLINE ALGA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRAZING PRESSURE; MACROALGA; ROCK POOL; ROCKY SHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

ALGAE; COLPOMENIA SINUOSA; HINCKSIA MITCHELLIAE; RALFSIA; ULVA; ULVA COMPRESSA;

EID: 33845908504     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps326099     Document Type: Article

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