Microalgal communities epibiontic on the marine hydroid Eudendrium racemosum in the Ligurian Sea during an annual cycle

Marine Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 537-552

  Romagnoli, Tiziana ^a   Bavestrello, Giorgio ^a   Cucchiari, Emellina M ^a   De Stefano, Mario ^b   Di Camillo, Cristina G ^a   Pennesi, Chiara ^a   Puce, Stefania ^a   Totti, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL COMMUNITY; ANNUAL CYCLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; EPIBIONT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVERTEBRATE; MICROALGA; POLYP; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AMPHORA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; BERKELEYA RUTILANS; COCCONEIS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLOPHORA TENUIS; EUDENDRIUM RACEMOSUM; HYDROIDA; LICMOPHORA; TABULARIA TABULATA;

EID: 33947540483     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0487-x     Document Type: Article

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