Marine macrophyte communities on the reef flat at Agatti atoll (Lakshadweep, India)

Botanica Marina

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 557-568

  Rodrigues, C L ^a   Caeiro, S ^a   Raikar, S V ^a,b  

^a GOA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MACROALGAE; NACROALGAE; SEAGRASS;

AGATTI; ATOLL; INDIA; LAKSHADWEEP;

BOERGESENIA FORBESII; CERAMIUM; CODIUM ARABICUM; ECHINOIDEA; GELIDIELLA ACEROSA; GRACILARIA EDULIS; HALIMEDA GRACILIS; HYDROCHARITACEAE; LAURENCIA PAPILLOSA; THALASSSIA HEMPRICHII; TURBINARIA ORNATA; ULVA LACTUCA; VALONIOPSIS PACHYNEMA;

EID: 0031422475     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/botm.1997.40.1-6.557     Document Type: Article

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