Conflicting management goals: Manatees and invasive competitors inhibit restoration of a native macrophyte

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 571-586

  Hauxwell, Jennifer ^a,b   Osenberg, Craig W ^a   Frazer, Thomas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic restoration; Herbivory; Hydrilla verticillata; Lyngbya; Manatee; Milfoil; Myriophyllum spicatum; Nutrient; Seagrass; Transplant; Vallisneria americana; Wild celery

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HERBIVORY; MACROPHYTE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SIRENIAN; TRANSPLANTATION;

FLORIDA; KINGS BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACHILLEA; ANIMALIA; APIUM GRAVEOLENS VAR. DULCE; HALOPHILA; HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA; LYNGBYA; MYRIOPHYLLUM; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; SIRENIA; TRICHECHIDAE; TRICHECHUS MANATUS; VALLISNERIA; VALLISNERIA AMERICANA;

EID: 1642299932     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5250     Document Type: Article

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