Clonal architecture in an intertidal bed of the dwarf eelgrass Zostera noltii in the northern Wadden Sea: Persistence through extreme physical perturbation and the importance of a seed bank

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2139-2148

  Zipperle, Andreas M ^a   Coyer, James A ^a   Reise, Karsten ^b   Gitz, Eelo ^a   Stam, Wytze T ^a   Olsen, Jeanine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MEADOW; SEAGRASS; SEED BANK; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ZOSTERA JAPONICA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 70349847383     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1244-8     Document Type: Article

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