Status of a shallow seagrass system, Geographe Bay, south-western Australia

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 255-262

  McMahon, K ^a   Young, E ^a,b   Montgomery, S ^a   Cosgrove, J ^a   Wilshaw, J ^a   Walker, D I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EUTROPHICATION; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

AUSTRALIA;

POSIDONIA SINUOSA;

EID: 0031543928     PISSN: 0035922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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