Epiphytes and associated fauna on the brown alga Fucus vesiculosus in the Baltic and the North Seas in relation to different abiotic and biotic variables

Marine Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 87-95

  Kersen, Priit ^a,b   Kotta, Jonne ^a   Bučas, Martynas ^c   Kolesova, Natalja ^d   Deķere, Zane ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^c KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Community composition; Dominance structure; Epibionts; Fucoids; Host frond; Marine benthos; Mobile invertebrates; Seaweeds; Spatial variability; Wave exposure

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; BROWN ALGA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EPIPHYTE; MACROALGA; SEAWEED; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; INVERTEBRATA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79953330788     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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