Seasonal patterns in the maërl community of shallow european atlantic beds and their use as a baseline for monitoring studies

European Journal of Phycology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-342

  Peña, Viviana ^a   Bárbara, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Associated flora; Atlantic Iberian Peninsula; Ma rl beds; Monitoring; Photosynthetic photon flux density; Seasonality; Seaweeds; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881027420     PISSN: 09670262     EISSN: 14694433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09670261003586938     Document Type: Article

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