Animals on marine flowers: Does the presence of flowering shoots affect mobile epifaunal assemblage in an eelgrass meadow?

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 589-598

  Nakaoka, Masahiro ^a   Matsumasa, Masatoshi ^b   Toyohara, Tetsuhiko ^c   Williams, Susan L ^d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Marine Biological Research Institute of Japan Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; EPIFAUNA; FEEDING GROUND; FLOWER; GASTROPOD; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAGRASS; SHOOT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; OTSUCHI BAY; TOHOKU;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; LIRULARIA IRIDESCENS; PLATYNEREIS; POLYCHAETA; TANAIDAE; ZEUXO; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 38349117678     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0832-8     Document Type: Article

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