Macroalgal competition and invasive success: Testing competition in mixed canopies of Sargassum muticum and Saccharina latissima

Botanica Marina

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 223-229

  Strong, James A ^a   Dring, Matthew J ^b  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

competition; macroalgae; replacement series; Saccharina latissima; Sargassum muticum; Strangford Lough

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIGHT EFFECT; MACROALGA; NATIVE SPECIES; REPLACEMENT; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

NORTHERN IRELAND; STRANGFORD LOUGH; UNITED KINGDOM;

SACCHARINA; SACCHARINA LATISSIMA; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM MUTICUM;

EID: 79959422608     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: 14374323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2011.034     Document Type: Article

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