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The influence of season and barnacles on the algal colonization of Patella vulgata exclusion areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

S. J. Hawkins
S. J. Hawkins
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Department of Marine Biology, Liverpool University, Port Erin, Isle of Man
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Patella vulgata were excluded from barnacle dominated areas at Port St Mary, Isle of Man by wire fences attached to the rock in September 1977, December 1977, April 1978 and July 1978. The sequences of algal colonization of these exclusion areas differed markedly with season: in autumn diatoms were followed directly by Fucus, in winter and spring diatoms were followed by green algae and then Fucus, and in late summer Fucus sporelings arose directly on the barnacles. There was no evidence that the initial stages were necessary for the subsequent recruitment of Fucus.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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