Testing the predictive power of seagrass depth limit models

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 652-656

  Duarte, Carlos M ^a   Marbà, Núria ^a   Krause Jensen, Dorte ^b   Sánchez Camacho, María ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION; DATA SET; DEPTH; MODEL; SEAGRASS;

EID: 35348836569     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841962     Document Type: Article

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