Implications of climate change for macrophytic rafts and their hitchhikers

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 443, Issue , 2011, Pages 285-292

  MacReadie, Peter I ^a   Bishop, Melanie J ^b   Booth, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Connectivity; Dispersal; Drifting; Macroalgae; Rafting; Range; Seagrass

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; HERBIVORE; MACROALGA; MACROPHYTE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STORM; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84555205316     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09529     Document Type: Article

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