Community composition of the rocky intertidal at Helgoland (German Bight, North Sea)

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 357-366

  Reichert, Katharina ^a   Buchholz, Friedrich ^b   Giménez, Luis ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Helgoland; Intertidal communities; Tidal height; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMAN BIGHT; GERMANY; HELGOLAND; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; NORTH SEA; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN;

ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; BALANUS; BRYOZOA; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CORALLINA OFFICINALIS; FUCUS; FUCUS SERRATUS; HYDROZOA; INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS; PHAEOPHYCEAE; THORACICA; ULVA;

EID: 55249098390     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: 14383888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-008-0123-x     Document Type: Article

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