Resilience of Zostera muelleri seagrass to small-scale disturbances: The relative importance of asexual versus sexual recovery

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 450-461

  Macreadie, Peter I ^a   York, Paul H ^a,b   Sherman, Craig D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Genotypic diversity; Recovery; Resilience; Seagrass; Zostera

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894047674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.933     Document Type: Article

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