Sediment tolerance of Sargassum algae inhabiting sediment-covered rocky reefs

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 723-733

  Kawamata, Shigeru ^a   Yoshimitsu, Satoshi ^b   Tokunaga, Shigemitsu ^b   Kubo, Satoshi ^b   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima Prefectural Fisheries Technology and Development Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; CORAL REEF; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MORTALITY; PROPAGULE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEAWEED; SURVIVAL; TOLERANCE;

JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU;

ALGAE; SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM DUPLICATUM;

EID: 84858750422     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-011-1849-6     Document Type: Article

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