Stressed, but not defenceless: No obvious influence of irradiation levels on antifeeding and antifouling defences of tropical macroalgae

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1151-1159

  Appelhans, Yasmin Shirin ^a   Lenz, Mark ^a   Medeiros, Heloisa Elias ^b   da Gama, Bernardo Antonio Perez ^b   Pereira, Renato Crespo ^b   Wahl, Martin ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; ANTIFEEDANT; ANTIFOULING AGENT; BIVALVE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; IRRADIATION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MACROALGA; METABOLITE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEAWEED;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; CODIUM DECORTICATUM; ELASMOPUS BRASILIENSIS; OSMUNDARIA OBTUSILOBA; PERNA; PERNA PERNA; PTEROCLADIELLA CAPILLACEA; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM VULGARE; STYPOPODIUM ZONALE;

EID: 77952420408     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1396-6     Document Type: Article

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