Succession of seawall algal communities on artificial substrates

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-10

  Loke, Lynette H L ^a   Liao, Lawrence M ^b   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^c,d   Todd, Peter A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algae; Ecological succession; Equatorial tropics; Seawalls; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978389098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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