Seagrass ecology and threats in the tropical Indo-Pacific bioregion

Seagrass: Ecology, Uses and Threats

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 225-239

  Coles, Rob ^a   Grech, Alana ^b   Rasheed, Michael ^a   McKenzie, Len ^a   Unsworth, Richard ^c   Short, Fred ^d  

^a Northern Fisheries Centre   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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