Survival of sand-burial by seaweeds with crustose bases or life-history stages structures the biotic community on an intertidal rocky shore

Botanica Marina

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-20

  Anderson, Robert J ^a,b   Anderson, Dylan R ^c   Anderson, James S ^d  

^a Seaweed Unit   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Crusts; Disturbance; Gymnogongrus; Mazzaella; Sand burial

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; RED ALGA; ROCKY SHORE; SEAWEED; SURVIVAL;

CHTHAMALUS; GYMNOGONGRUS; MAZZAELLA; MAZZAELLA CAPENSIS; PATELLIDAE; PORPHYRA; PORPHYRA CAPENSIS; RHODOPHYTA; THORACICA;

EID: 38849114938     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: 14374323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2008.006     Document Type: Article

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