Zostera: Biology, ecology, and management

Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 361-386

  Moore, Kenneth A ^a   Short, Frederick T ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_16     Document Type: Chapter

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