Effects of algal canopy clearance on plant, fish and macroinvertebrate communities on eastern Tasmanian reefs

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 312, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-87

  Edgar, Graham J ^a   Barrett, Neville S ^a   Morton, Alastair J ^a   Samson, Cath R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algal canopy; Experimental clearance; Invertebrate; Marine protected area; Sublittoral; Turbo undulatus; Undaria pinnatifida; Urchin barrens

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; CANOPY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REEF; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ACANTHALUTERES; ALGAE; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; DICTYOTALES; ECHINOIDEA; HALIOTIS; HALIOTIS CORRUGATA; HELIOCIDARIS ERYTHROGRAMMA; INVERTEBRATA; LAMINARIA; MONACANTHIDAE; PISCES; UNDARIA PINNATIFIDA; VITTIGER;

EID: 4644349931     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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