Seagrass responses to long-term light reduction by brown tide in upper Laguna Madre, Texas: Distribution and biomass patterns

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 138, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 219-231

  Onuf, Christopher P ^a  

^a National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Brown tide; Distribution; Halodule wrightii; Irradiance; Light; PAR; Seagrass; Subtropical; Texas

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOMS; BIOMASS; BLOOM; BROWN TIDE; DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT ATTENUATION; SEAGRASS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

USA, TEXAS, LAGUNA MADRE;

CYMODOCEACEAE; HALODULE WRIGHTII;

EID: 0029669554     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps138219     Document Type: Article

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