Experimental transplanting of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile into a disturbed habitat in the Mediterranean Sea

Botanica Marina

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 593-601

  Piazzi, L ^a   Balestri, E ^b   Magri, M ^a   Cinelli, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Consorzio per il Ctro I ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEAGRASS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ITALY; LIGURIAN SEA; LIVORNO; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TUSCANY;

HALOPHILA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 0031797653     PISSN: 00068055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/botm.1998.41.1-6.593     Document Type: Article

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