Photosymbiotic ascidian fauna were surveyed in the subtidal zone off Pari Island in the Thousand Islands (Java Sea, Indonesia). Nine species were recorded: Didemnum molle, Trididemnum miniatum, Lissoclinum patella, L. punctatum, L. timorense, Diplosoma gumavirens, D. simile, D. simileguwa, and D. virens. All of these species have been previously recorded in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Diplos...

Photosynthetic processes in Zostera japonica, an upper intertidal species, were found to be more severely affected by desiccation than Z. marina, a lower intertidal and subtidal species, at comparable levels of tissue water content. The data indicate that photosynthetic responses to desiccation at the level of the individual leaf are insufficient to explain observed patterns of intertidal seagr...

Allometric size-scaling of biometric growth parameters and metabolic and 1 excretion rates. A comparative study of intertidal and subtidal populations 2 of mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) 3 Kristina Arranz, Uxío Labarta*, M. José Fernández-Reiriz and Enrique Navarro 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Instituto de Investigaciones 5 Marinas (IIM), C/Eduardo Cabello 6, 3...