Epibionts associated with the red alga Furcellaria lumbricalis in the northern Baltic Sea

Memoranda Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 81-94

  Kostamo, Kirsi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EPIBIONT; EPIFAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEW RECORD; RED ALGA; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ALGAE; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; FURCELLARIA LUMBRICALIS; INVERTEBRATA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 57049187050     PISSN: 03736873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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