A provisional classification of algal-characterised rocky shore biotopes in the Azores
In: Hydrobiologia. Springer: The Hague. ISSN 0018-8158; e-ISSN 1573-5117, more
Related to:Tittley, I.; Neto, A.I. (2000). A provisional classification of algal-characterised rocky shore biotopes in the Azores, in: Jones, M.B. et al. Island, Ocean and Deep-Sea Biology: Proceedings of the 34th European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal, 13-17 September 1999. Developments in Hydrobiology, 152: pp. 19-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1982-7_2, more
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Algae
Composition > Community composition
Habitat > Biotopes
Topographic features > Landforms > Coastal landforms > Rocky shores
Marine/Coastal |
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- Tittley, I.
- Neto, A.I., more
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Recent studies of the rocky shores of the Azores archipelago have provided information on community structure allowing provisional identification of plant-characterised biotopes (habitats and their associated communities). Although the Azores share some littoral and sublittoral biotopes with the Atlantic coast of mainland Europe, shores in the archipelago mostly lack the functionally important `leathery macrophyte' communities of fucoids and laminarians widespread in the North Atlantic. Intertidal biotopes are mainly turfs typical of warm-temperate and tropical regions, and characterised by articulated Corallinaceae or by non-coralline algae such as Cladophora spp., Gelidium spp., Pterocladiella capillacea, Stypocaulon scoparia, and Valonia utricularis. Subtidal algal biotopes are characterised by Dictyota spp., Halopteris filicina, Sphaerococcus coronopifolius and, most commonly, Zonaria tournefortii. |
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