Seagrass responses to and recovery (?) from seven years of brown tide

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 311-313

  Onuf, C P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Brown tide; Distribution; Halodule wrightii; Halophila engelmanni; Light; Phytoplankton bloom; Seagrass; Subtropical; Texas, USA

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BROWN TIDE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

LAGUNA MADRE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

HALODULE WRIGHTII; HALOPHILA ENGELMANNI;

EID: 12444319112     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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