Dynamics of seagrass stability and change

Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 271-294

  Duarte, Carlos M ^a   Fourqurean, James W ^b   Krause Jensen, Dorte ^c   Olesen, Birgit ^d  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_11     Document Type: Chapter

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