Quantifying the effects of green crab damage to eelgrass transplants

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-302

  Davis, Ryan C ^a   Short, Frederick T ^a   Burdick, David M ^a  

^a Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HABITAT RESTORATION; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032431599     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1998.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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