Sexual reproduction of seagrasses: Pollination in the marine context

Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 89-109

  Ackerman, Josef Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_4     Document Type: Chapter

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