A rapid and simple method for transplanting eelgrass using single, unanchored shoots

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-85

  Orth, Robert J ^a   Harwell, Matthew C ^a   Fishman, James R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Eelgrass; Restoration; Transplantation; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRASS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SEDIMENT; SURVIVAL; TECHNIQUE; TRANSPLANTATION; VEGETATION;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0033045698     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(99)00007-8     Document Type: Article

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