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Responses of common fouling organisms in the Indian River, Florida, to various predation and disturbance intensities
| Title: | Responses of common fouling organisms in the Indian River, Florida, to various predation and disturbance intensities. |
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| Name(s): |
Mook, David H., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1983 | |
| Publisher: | Springer | |
| Extent: | 9 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3174848 (digitool), FADT3174848 (IID), fau:5829 (fedora), 10.2307/1351396 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
The response of some common fouling organisms to increased predation by scraping and decreased predation by caging is described. Substrate coverage by many colonial forms such as Perophora viridis and Diplosoma macdonaldi was not affected by changes in predation intensity whereas coverage by many solitary forms such as Spirorbis sp. and Styela plicata increased when predation was reduced. These differences in responses of colonial and solitary species may be because solitary species reproduce sexually and resettle newly opened space whereas colonial species can rapidly expand adjacent colonies into newly cleared space. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available athttp://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Mook, D. (1983). Responses of common foulingorganisms in the Indian River, Florida, to various predation and disturbance intensities. Estuaries, 6(4), 372-379. doi:10.2307/1351396 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #294. |
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| Subject(s): |
Fouling organisms Predation (Biology) Predatory animals --Ecology Reproduction Sponges |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174848 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1351396 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1983 Springer | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
