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Filtering by: Advisor Lubchenco, Jane Date issued sim 1989-08-18

Marine herbivore-plant interactions : the feeding ecology of the sea slug Placida dendritica

Creator:

Trowbridge, Cynthia D.

Abstract:

The feeding ecology of a common temperate mesoherbivore, the oligophagous sea slug Placida dendritica (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Ascoglossa), was examined from April 1985 to June 1989. Along the central coast of Oregon, Placida consumed three host species: the low intertidal green algae Codium setchellii, C. fragile, and Bryopsis corticulans. Individual slugs...

Resource Type:

Dissertation