Role of grazing by sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis in regulating the invasive alga Codium fragile ssp. tomentosoides in Nova Scotia

Agriculture & Biology

• Codium fragile 100%
• Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis 97%
• Codium 97%
• Nova Scotia 80%
• Echinoidea 65%
• grazing 51%
• algae 50%
• Laminaria 49%
• macroalgae 48%
• canopy 16%
• lawns and turf 16%
• Strongylocentrotus nudus 11%
• turf algae 10%
• mixed stands 9%
• diet 7%
• Rhodophyta 7%
• Chlorophyta 6%
• cages 6%
• herbivores 5%
• Canada 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• grazing 55%
• alga 52%
• canopy 51%
• diet 36%
• sea 34%
• red alga 27%
• herbivory 25%
• green alga 23%
• field experiment 18%
• laboratory experiment 17%
• food 14%
• laboratory 11%
• experiment 8%
• rate 6%