Role of surface wounds and brown algal epiphytes in the colonization of ascophyllum nodosum (phaeophyceae) fronds by vertebrata lanosa (rhodophyta)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 535-539

  Longtin, Caroline M ^a   Scrosati, Ricardo A ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ascophyllum nodosum; Colonization; Elachista fucicola; Epiphytism; Intertidal zone; Pylaiella littoralis; Recruitment; Vertebrata lanosa

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; ELACHISTA FUCICOLA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; POLYSIPHONIA LANOSA; PYLAIELLA LITTORALIS; RHODOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66749083419     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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