| ADVANCED ROCKWEED: scientific links |
| Gulf of Maine Rockweed: management in the face of scientific uncertainty (a meeting held at New Brunswick, Canada, Dec. 1999) Abstracts Introduction to the meeting |
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| Photo showing the brown rockweed zone immediately above the water's edge |
| ROCKWEED RESEARCH CRITICAL IN THE RACE TO SAVE THE RESOURCE (Article from a University of Maine publication; describes Jill Fegley's research) |
| Environmental habitat quality requirements/guidelines for rockweed ;a publication of FAO, Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a description of the biology and habitat value of rockweed, with 28 references |
| GENERAL REFERENCES: |
| ROCKWEED AND BIRDS |
| ROCKWEED RECRUITMENT AND SURVIVAL |
| ROCKWEED AS HABITAT |
| Environmental habitat quality requirements/guidelines for rockweed ;a publication of DFO, Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a description of the biology and functions of rockweed, with 28 references |
| ROCKWEED AND FISH |
| MAINE DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: HABITAT RANKING Explains the use of rockweed as a habitat (see p. 3-5): as a nursery for commercial species, as a primary producer, high primary/secondary production, shelter, structure for attachment of settling larvae, food resources for one or more functional groups, variety of functional groups represented, sediment and nutrient sink and/or source, nutrient recycling, production and export of detritus, foraging area for shorebirds and/or wading birds, reduces coastal erosion, supports commercial fisheries |
| MAINE DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: Function and values of rockweed |
| COBSCOOK BAY RESOURCE CENTER: NOTES ON GULF OF MAINE ROCKWEED CONFERENCE |
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