Stabilization role of crustose coralline algae during Late Pleistocene reef development on Isla Cerralvo, Baja California sur (Mexico)

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 244-254

  Tierney, Peter W ^a   Johnson, Markes E ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological succession; Pleistocene; rhodoliths; Rhodophyta

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CENSUS; CLAST; COLONIZATION; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PAVEMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RED ALGA; RHODOLITH; STABILIZATION; SUCCESSION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; JACQUES COUSTEAU ISLAND; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 84863399255     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-11T-00009.1     Document Type: Article

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