Effect of a seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadow on wave propagation

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 456, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-72

  Infantes, E ^a   Orfila, A ^a   Simarro, G ^b   Terrados, J ^a   Luhar, M ^c   Nepf, H ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom roughness; Drag coefficient; Friction coefficient; Posidonia oceanica; Seagrass meadow; Wave attenuation; Wave damping

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BED ROUGHNESS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FRICTION; MEADOW; SEAGRASS; WATER DEPTH; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE DAMPING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 84862186493     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09754     Document Type: Article

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