Upwelling intensity and wave exposure determine recruitment of intertidal mussels and barnacles in the southern Benguela upwelling region

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 425, Issue , 2011, Pages 141-152

  Pfaff, Maya C ^a   Branch, George M ^a   Wieters, Evie A ^a,b,c   Branch, Ruth A ^d   Broitman, Bernardo R ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Universidad Católica del Norte   (Chile)

Author keywords

Headland bay; Intertidal; Invasive; Invertebrate larvae; Nearshore; Oceanography; Recruitment; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIVALVE; CRUSTACEAN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LARVA; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPWELLING;

ANGOLA; BENGUELA; CAPE PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

INVERTEBRATA; THORACICA;

EID: 79952654036     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09003     Document Type: Article

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