The world's longest seagrass, Zostera caulescens from northeastern Japan

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-93

  Aioi, Keiko ^a   Komatsu, Teruhisa ^a   Morita, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Ocean Res Inst the Univ of T   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy structure; Endemic species; Flowering shoot

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SEA;

EID: 0032103272     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(98)00066-7     Document Type: Article

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