The effects of dock shading on the seagrass Halodule wrightii in Perdido Bay, Alabama

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 936-943

  Shafer, Deborah J ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; PORT INSTALLATION; SEAGRASS; SHADING;

ALABAMA; PERDIDO BAY; UNITED STATES;

HALODULE WRIGHTII; HALOPHILA; RUMEX;

EID: 0033382097     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353073     Document Type: Article

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