Checking the landing zone: Do invertebrate larvae avoid settling near superior spatial competitors?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 280, Issue , 2004, Pages 239-247

  Bullard, Stephan G ^a,c   Whitlatch, Robert B ^a   Osman, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Competition; Cues; Larvae; Overgrowth; Settlement; Tunicates

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); INVERTEBRATE; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLOIDES; BOTRYLLOIDES VIOLACEUS; BOTRYLLUS; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; DIPLOSOMA LISTERIANUM; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 8444249750     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps280239     Document Type: Article

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