Modeling nonlinear seagrass clonal growth: Assessing the efficiency of space occupation across the seagrass flora

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-80

  Sintes, Tomàs ^a   Marbà, Núria ^b   Duarte, Carlos M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; CLONE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; RECOLONIZATION; SEAGRASS; SIMULATION;

EID: 33745891221     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02784700     Document Type: Article

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