Growth and production of new recruits and adult individuals of Ascophyllum nodosum in a non-harvested population at its southern limit (Galicia, NW Spain)

Marine Biology

Volumn 161, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2885-2895

  Viana, Inés G ^a   Bode, Antonio ^a   Fernández, Consolación ^b  

^a Centro Nacional Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BROWN ALGA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

GALICIA [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM;

EID: 84911806309     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: 14321793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-014-2553-0     Document Type: Article

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