Changes in subtidal assemblages in a scenario of warming: Proliferations of ephemeral benthic algae in the Canary Islands (eastern Atlantic Ocean)

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 77, Issue , 2012, Pages 120-128

  Sangil, Carlos ^a,b   Sansón, Marta ^b   Afonso Carrillo, Julio ^b   Herrera, Rogelio ^c   Rodríguez, Adriana ^b   Martín García, Laura ^a   Díaz Villa, Tania ^b  

^a Reserva Mundial de la Biosfera La Palma ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c Servicio de Ordenación Territorial   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canary islands; Ecosystem changes; Ephemeral species; Pseudotetraspora marina; SST warming; Subtidal algal assemblages

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENTHIC ALGAE; CANARY ISLANDS; CHLOROPHYTES; COLDER WATER; CYANOPHYTES; EPHEMERAL SPECIES; LOBOPHORA VARIEGATA; NON-NATIVE; SST WARMING; SUBTIDAL ALGAL ASSEMBLAGES; SURFACE SEAWATER;

MARINAS; SEAWATER;

ALGAE;

COLD WATER; HOT WATER; SEA WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ALGA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARMING;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLENNOPTHRIX LYNGBYACEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOPHYTE; DENSITY GRADIENT; EPHEMERAL SPECIES; LOBOPHORA VARIEGATA; MACROALGA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PSEUDOTETRASPORA MARINA; SCHIZOTHRIX CALCICOLA; SCHIZOTHRIX MEXICANA; SEAWATER UPWELLING; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

ALGAE; BLENNOTHRIX LYNGBYACEA; CYANOBACTERIA; LOBOPHORA VARIEGATA; PSEUDOTETRASPORA MARINA; SCHIZOTHRIX CALCICOLA; SCHIZOTHRIX MEXICANA;

EID: 84860348812     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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