Community metabolism and carbon budget along a gradient of seagrass (Cymodocea nodosa) colonization

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1642-1651

  Barrón, Cristina ^a   Marbà, Núria ^a   Terrados, Jorge ^a   Kennedy, Hilary ^b   Duarte, Carlos M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; COLONIZATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; METABOLISM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESPIRATION; SEAGRASS MEADOW;

CYMODOCEA NODOSA; HALOPHILA;

EID: 4944244082     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2004.49.5.1642     Document Type: Article

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