Canopy macroalgae influence understorey corallines' metabolic control of near-surface pH and oxygen concentration

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 525, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-95

  Cornwall, Christopher E ^a,d   Pilditch, Conrad A ^b   Hepburn, Christopher D ^a   Hurd, Catriona L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary layers; Coralline algae; Hydrodynamics; Ocean acidification; Seawater pH; Understorey canopy interactions

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORALLINE ALGA; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROALGA; METABOLISM; OXYGEN; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAWATER; UNDERSTORY;

ALGAE; CARPOPHYLLUM; CORALLINA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 84927163361     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: 16161599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11190     Document Type: Article

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