A 12-year record of intertidal barnacle recruitment in Atlantic Canada (2005–2016): relationships with sea surface temperature and phytoplankton abundance

On the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast of Nova Scotia (Canada), recruitment of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides occurs in May and June. Every year in June between 2005 and 2016, we recorded recruit density for this barnacle at the same wave-exposed rocky intertidal location on this coast. During these...

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Main Authors: Ricardo A. Scrosati, Julius A. Ellrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2623.pdf