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A field study of settlement behaviour in Balanus balanoides and Elminius modestus (Cirripedia: Crustacea) in relation to competition between them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

B. E. Barnett ,
S. C. Edwards  and
D. J. Crisp
B. E. Barnett
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
S. C. Edwards
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
D. J. Crisp
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd
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There can be little doubt that competition for space, both inter- and intraspecific is a major factor in barnacle ecology. Southward & Crisp (1956) first pointed out the role of competition between Balanus balanoides (L.) and Chthamalus stellatus (Poli) in south-west Britain which Connell (1959, 1961) later demonstrated experimentally. Crisp (1958) discussed competition between the indigenous B. balanoides and the immigrant Elminius modestus Darwin in the intertidal zone, and measurements of growth rates, using manipulated populations of these two species, indicated that inter- and intraspecific competition for space after settlement is intense (Crisp, 1964).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 575 - 580
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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