Seagrasses from the Nansei Islands, Southern Japanese Archipelago: Species composition, distribution and biogeography

Marine Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 290-298

  Kuo, John ^a   Kanamoto, Ziyusei ^b   Iizumi, Hitoshi ^c   Aioi, Keiko ^d   Mukai, Hiroshi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Hokkaido University ^*  (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Nansei Islands; Northern distributional limit; Seagrasses

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAGRASS; SEAWATER; SHALLOW WATER; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

ANTHOZOA; CYMODOCEA ROTUNDATA; CYMODOCEA SERRULATA; ENHALUS ACOROIDES; HALODULE PINIFOLIA; HALODULE UNINERVIS; HALOPHILA; HALOPHILA DECIPIENS; HALOPHILA MINOR; HALOPHILA OVALIS; SYRINGODIUM ISOETIFOLIUM; THALASSIA HEMPRICHII; ZOSTERA JAPONICA;

EID: 33751551676     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2006.00098.x     Document Type: Article

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