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Zonation and Ecology of Epiphytic Hydroids in a Mediterranean Coastal Lagoon: The ‘Stagnone’ of Marsala (North‐West Sicily)
Author(s) -
Piraino Stefano,
Morri Carla
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
marine ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.668
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1439-0485
pISSN - 0173-9565
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1990.tb00227.x
Subject(s) - seagrass , epiphyte , hydroid (botany) , ecology , mediterranean climate , mediterranean sea , oceanography , posidonia oceanica , geography , biology , habitat , geology , botany
. Distribution patterns of epiphytic hydroids of seagrass ( Posidonia occanica and Cymodocea nodosa ) beds were studied in the ‘Stagnone’, a moderately hypcrhaline lagoon in Sicily. The role of water movement in determining the spatial and temporal zonation of epiphytic hydroids and their morpho‐physiological variations is evaluated. Remarks on systematics arc also included.