Distribution of algal epiphytes across environmental gradients at different scales: Intertidal elevation, host canopies, and host fronds

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 820-827

  Longtin, Caroline M ^a   Scrosati, Ricardo A ^a   Whalen, Gillian B ^a   Garbary, David J ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ascophyllum nodosum; Elachista fucicola; Environmental gradient; Epiphyte; Intertidal zone; Pylaiella littoralis; Spatial scale; Vertebrata lanosa

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 66749184133     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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