Structure and function of warm temperate East Australian coastal lagoons: Implications for natural and anthropogenic changes

Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 457-481

  Eyre, Bradley D ^a   Maher, Damien ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benthic microalgae; Benthic production; Carbon; Climate change; Fisheries; Function; Lagoon; Net ecosystem metabolism; Primary production; Seagrass; Structure; Trophic transfer efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054967495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/EBK1420088304     Document Type: Chapter

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