Journal article
Rate and nature of infestation of a carbonate substratum by a boring alga
Abstract
Iceland spar crystals, maintained in the shallow subtidal marine environment at Discovery Bay, Jamaica, become infested by the boring chlorophyte, Ostreobium sp. The exposed crystals were collected at intervals over a 257-day period; they showed the relationship between time and percentage infestation by surface area in the crystals to be asymptotic, with ≈ 100 % surface infestation 213 days after being placed in the sea. Initial infestation …
Authors
Kobluk DR; Risk MJ
Journal
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 107–115
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
May 1977
DOI
10.1016/0022-0981(77)90131-9
ISSN
0022-0981