Items for "Mazzaella"

Survival of sand-burial by seaweeds with crustose bases or life-history stages structures the biotic community on an intertidal rocky shore

Responses of a rocky intertidal community to seasonal sand-inundation were investigated on the cool-temperate west coast of South Africa by experimentally testing the hypothesis that the crustose components in certain macroalgae survive burial, enabling them to dominate the community when the shore is sand-free...

Keywords: crusts, disturbance, Gymnogongrus, Mazzaella, sand-burial