The extensive development of the turf-forming red alga Womersleyella setacea (Hollenberg) R. E. Norris (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales) in the Bay of Boka Kotorska, Montenegro (southern Adriatic Sea)

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 120-125

  Battelli, Claudio ^a   Rindi, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Macrobenthic algae; Southern Adriatic Sea; Sublittoral; Turf forming; Womersleyella setacea

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CERAMIALES; RHODOPHYTA; WOMERSLEYELLA SETACEA;

EID: 40549137824     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500701872747     Document Type: Article

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