Dynamics of a landscape mosaic: Size and age distributions, growth and demography of seagrass Cymodocea nodosa patches

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-138

  Vidondo, B ^a   Duarte, C M ^b   Middelboe, A L ^c   Stefansen, K ^c   Lutzen T ^c   Nielsen, S L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Landscape scale; Pareto distribution; Seagrass patch dynamics; Size and age distributions; Three dimensional mapping

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; PATCH DYNAMICS; SEAGRASS MEADOW; VEGETATION MAPPING;

CYMODOCEA NODOSA; CYMODOCEACEAE; CYMODOCEAS NODOSA; HALOPHILA;

EID: 0030662985     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps158131     Document Type: Article

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