Recent evolution in Baltic Fucus vesiculosus: reduced tolerance to emersion stresses compared to intertidal (North Sea) populations

The Baltic is a young, brackish and non-tidal sea, supporting an impoverished marine flora compared with adjacent open coastal areas. Populations of the normally intertidal brown alga Fucus vesiculosus L. are permanently submerged in the Baltic. We tested the hypothesis that these populations have e...

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Main Author: Pearson, G. A. (author)
Other Authors: Kautsky, L. (author), Serrão, Ester (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Baltic Sea
Desiccation
Emersion stress tolerance
Evolution
Freezing
Fucoid algae
Fucus vesiculosus
Local adaptation
Water stress
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4125
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/4125

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4125

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