Abundance of drifting seaweeds in eastern East China Sea

Journal of Applied Phycology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 801-809

  Komatsu, Teruhisa ^a   Matsunaga, Daisuke ^a   Mikami, Atsuko ^a   Sagawa, Tatsuyuki ^a   Boisnier, Etienne ^a   Tatsukawa, Kenichi ^a   Aoki, Masakazu ^b   Ajisaka, Tetsuro ^c   Uwai, Shinya ^d   Tanaka, Katsuhiko ^e   Ishida, Kenichi ^a   Tanoue, Hideaki ^a   Sugimoto, Takashige ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^f TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biomass; Drifting seaweed; East China Sea; Kuroshio; Sargassum horneri

Indexed keywords

SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM HORNERI;

EID: 58149241048     PISSN: 09218971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10811-007-9302-4     Document Type: Article

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