Eelgrass seed dispersal via floating generative shoots in the Dutch Wadden Sea: A model approach

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 115-124

  Erftemeijer, Paul L A ^a   Van Beek, Jan K L ^a   Ochieng, Caroline A ^b   Jager, Zwanette ^c   Los, Hans J ^a  

^a WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Recruitment limitation; Seed dispersal; Transport modelling; Wadden sea; Wind effects; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEAGRASS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION; SHOOT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EMS ESTUARY; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 44249106164     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07304     Document Type: Article

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