Physical Stress & Biological Control Regulate Intertidal Biofilms.

Physical Stress & Biological Control Regulate the Producer-Consumer Balance in Intertidal Biofilms, by   R. C. Thompson, T. A. Norton, S. J. Hawkins

First published: 01 May 2004 by Ecological Society of America 

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