Shelter effects of coralline algal turfs: Protection for Turbo cornutus juveniles from predation by a predatory gastropod and wrasse

Fisheries Science

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-20

  Hayakawa, Jun ^a   Kawamura, Tomohiko ^b   Kurogi, Hiroaki ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiro ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algal turf; Articulated coralline algae; Predation; Shelter effect; Turbo cornutus

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BATILLUS CORNUTUS; ERGALATAX CONTRACTUS; GASTROPODA; MURICIDAE; PTERAGOGUS FLAGELLIFER;

EID: 84872268335     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: 14442906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12562-012-0569-2     Document Type: Article

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