Florida Bay: A history of recent ecological changes

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 345-357

  Fourqurean, James W ^a   Robblee, Michael B ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HOLOCENE;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; HALOPHILA;

EID: 0032831030     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353203     Document Type: Article

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