Morphological and physiological variation among seagrass (Zostera marina) genotypes

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 725-733

  Hughes, A Randall ^a,b   Stachowicz, John J ^c   Williams, Susan L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence; Community genetics; Genetic diversity; Niche complementarity

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESOURCE USE; SEAGRASS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; UNITED STATES; ZOSTERACEAE;

BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; NITRATES; PLANT SHOOTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ZOSTERACEAE;

BODEGA HARBOR; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 62149095082     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1251-3     Document Type: Article

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