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The Settlement of Sargassum Muticum Propagules in Stationary and Flowing Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Trevor A. Norton  and
Richard Fetter
Trevor A. Norton
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Glasgow, Scotland and Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, U.S.A.zz
Richard Fetter*
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Glasgow, Scotland and Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, U.S.A.zz
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*Present address: Department of Anatomy, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
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Waves and currents render the shallow sea a chaotic environment. Seaweeds broadcast into the water tiny dissemination phases whose powers of locomotion are at best puny in relation to the water forces that act upon them.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , November 1981 , pp. 929 - 940
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1981

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