Canopy-forming species mediate the effects of disturbance onmacroalgal assemblages on Portuguese rocky shores

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 414, Issue , 2010, Pages 107-116

  Bertocci, Iacopo ^a   Arenas, Francisco ^a   Matias, Miguel ^a,b   Vaselli, Stefano ^a   Araújo, Rita ^a   Abreu, Helena ^a   Pereira, Rui ^a   Vieira, Raquel ^a   Sousa Pinto, Isabel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Canopy algae; Disturbance; Multiple stressors; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MACROALGA; RED ALGA; ROCKY SHORE; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

PORTUGAL;

AHNFELTIOPSIS DEVONIENSIS; ALGAE; CORALLINA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 77957742276     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08729     Document Type: Article

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