Hurricane-induced mass mortalities to a tropical subtidal algal community and subsequent recoveries
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 20 (1-2) , 75-83
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps020075
Abstract
Hurricanes David (Aug., 1979) and Allen (Aug, 1980) caused extensive mass mortalities in a subtidal benthic algal community. The area studied lies offshore from the southwest corner of Puerto Rico, in 17 m of water, and normally supports a rich algal flora. Recolonizations proceeded with continual accumulation of species; at the scale examined, recruitment appeared to be a random process. Competitive displacement of initial colonizing species was not observed, and recoveries were qualitatively considered to be complete within 1 yr of the disturbances.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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