Seasonality of macroalgal assemblages in a wave-eroded intertidal granite shore at Chengshan Cape, on the northwest coast of the Yellow Sea

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 529, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 145-156

  Zhuang, S H ^a   Chen, L X ^a   Zhang, M ^a   Cao, Y D ^b  

^a YANTAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass; Chengshan Cape; Intertidal granite shore; Macroalgal assemblage; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WAVE ACTION;

BIOMASS; COMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYING;

ALGAE;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; SEASONALITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; CHENGSHAN CAPE; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHANDONG; WORLD; YELLOW SEA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CORALLINA; EUKARYOTA; GELIDIUM; GELIDIUM AMANSII; GYMNOGONGRUS; JAPONICA; LAMINARIA; LAMINARIA JAPONICA; PHAEOPHYCEAE; POLYSIPHONIA; POLYSIPHONIA URCEOLATA; PORPHYRA; RHODOPHYTA; SARGASSUM; ULVA; ULVA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 8744315387     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-004-5739-5     Document Type: Review

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