Synchronous flowering of estuarine seagrass meadows

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-48

  Inglis, Graeme J ^a   Lincoln Smith, Marcus P ^a  

^a Ecology Lab Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Posidonia australis; Reproduction; Spatial scale; Zostera capricorni

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING SYNCHRONY; PHENOLOGY; SAMPLING; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTUARY; GRASS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GROWTH; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES;

POSIDONIA AUSTRALIS; ZOSTERA CAPRICORNI;

EID: 0345628031     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(97)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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