Macroalgal communities face the challenge of changing biotic interactions: Review with focus on the Baltic Sea

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Volumn 36, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 203-211

  Korpinen, Samuli ^a   Honkanen, Tuija ^a   Vesakoski, Outi ^a   Hemmi, Anne ^a   Koivikko, Riitta ^a   Loponen, Jyrki ^a   Jormalainen, Veijo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPIBIONT; EUTROPHICATION; GRAZING PRESSURE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ALGAE;

EID: 34250676370     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[203:MCFTCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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116. Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Academy of Finland (project #53832, BIREME program), the Nessling Foundation, and the Evolutionary Ecology Graduate School for financing the studies that form the basis of this review. Comments by two anonymous reviewers were very helpful in developing the manuscript.