Settlement rates of macroalgal propagules: Cross-species comparisons in a turbulent environment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-76

  Taylor, David ^a   Delaux, Sebastien ^a,b   Stevens, Craig ^b   Nokes, Roger ^a   Schiel, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MACROALGA; PROPAGULE; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SHEAR STRESS; TURBULENCE;

NEW ZEALAND; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; CYSTOPHORA TORULOSA; DURVILLAEA ANTARCTICA; FUCUS; FUCUS GARDNERI; HORMOSIRA BANKSII; PELVETIOPSIS LIMITATA;

EID: 75749127785     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2010.55.1.0066     Document Type: Article

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