Barnacle recruitment on ice-scoured shores in eastern Canada

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-291

  Macpherson, Elizabeth A ^a   Scrosati, Ricardo ^a   Chareka, Patrick ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barnacle; Ice scour; Intertidal; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; NORTH AMERICA;

SEMIBALANUS BALANOIDES; THORACICA;

EID: 41149094962     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408000714     Document Type: Article

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