Measuring ecosystem function: Consequences arising from variation in biomass-productivity relationships

Community Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-44

  TerHorst, C P ^a   Munguia, P ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Seagrass; Spatial scale; Thalassia testudinum

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 49249113426     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.9.2008.1.5     Document Type: Article

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