Macro- and mesoherbivores prefer native seaweeds over the invasive brown seaweed Sargassum muticum: A potential regulating role on invasions

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2505-2515

  Monteiro, Carla A ^a   Engelen, Aschwin H ^a   Santos, Rui O P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; SEAWEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM MUTICUM;

EID: 70350398621     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1275-1     Document Type: Article

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