Elucidating seagrass population dynamics: Theory, constraints, and practice

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2070-2074

  Fourqurean, James W ^a   Marbà, Núria ^b   Duarte, Carlos M ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; HALOPHILA;

EID: 0141621301     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.5.2070     Document Type: Note

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