Carbon self-utilization may assist Caulerpa taxifolia invasion

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1824-1831

  Oakes, Joanne M ^a   Bautista, Melissa D ^a   Maher, Damien ^a   Jones, W Brian ^b   Eyre, D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ThermoFisher Australia and New Zealand   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DETRITUS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; MUDFLAT; PHYTOBENTHOS; SEAGRASS; SEAWEED; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TOXIC MATERIAL;

AUSTRALIA;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULERPA; CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA; ZOSTERA CAPRICORNI;

EID: 81755189028     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.5.1824     Document Type: Article

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