Reefs as contributors to diversity of epiphytic macroalgae assemblages in seagrass meadows

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-83

  Van Elven, B R ^a   Lavery, P S ^a   Kendrick, G A ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity; Epiphytes; Posidonia sinuosa; Reef; Seagrass; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EPIPHYTE; MACROALGA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REEF; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ALGAE; HALOPHILA; POSIDONIA; POSIDONIA SINUOSA;

EID: 4444248418     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps276071     Document Type: Article

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