Effects of two hurricanes on Syringodium filiforme, manatee grass, within the Loxahatchee River Estuary, southeast Florida

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1019-1025

  Ridler, Mary S ^a   Dent, Richard C ^a   Arrinton, D Albrey ^a  

^a Loxahatchee River District   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASS; HURRICANE FRANCES 2004; HURRICANE JEANNE 2004; MONITORING; SALINITY; SEAGRASS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LOXAHATCHEE RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CYMODOCEACEAE; HALOPHILA JOHNSONII; SYRINGODIUM FILIFORME;

EID: 36749080872     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02798664     Document Type: Article

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