The colonization of macroalgal rafts by the genus Idotea (sub-phylum Crustacea; Order Isopoda): An active or passive process?

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1273-1282

  Clarkin, Emmett ^a   Maggs, Christine A ^a   Arnott, Gareth ^a   Briggs, Sean ^a   Houghton, Jonathan D R ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

colonization; dispersal; Idotea baltica; Idotea granulosa; orientation; rafting

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ISOPOD; LABORATORY METHOD; MACROALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEAWEED; SHORELINE;

NORTHERN IRELAND; STRANGFORD LOUGH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; CRUSTACEA; FUCUS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; IDOTEA; IDOTEA BALTICA; IDOTEA GRANULOSA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA;

EID: 84865822808     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315411002013     Document Type: Article

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