Dynamics of seagrass meadows on the Swedish Skagerrak coast

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-88

  Nyqvist, Anna ^a   André, Carl ^a   Gullstrom, Martin ^b   Baden, Susanne Pihl ^c   Åberg, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; GPS; MEADOW; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POACEAE; SWEDEN;

ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; SWEDEN;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 64849096123     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.2.85     Document Type: Article

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45. The study was funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency through the project MARBIPP (Marine Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes). Thanks to all who has been helpful, in different ways, during the surveys periods, especially Maria Bodin, Bo Gustafsson, and Björn Källström. Thanks also to all within MARBIPP for inspiring discussions about eelgrass dynamics.
46. First submitted 30 June 2008. Accepted for publication 22 September 2008.