Spatial structure of seagrass suggests that size-dependent plant traits have a strong influence on the distribution and maintenance of tropical multispecies meadows

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ooi, Jillian L S ^a,b   Van Niel, Kimberly P ^a   Kendrick, Gary A ^a   Holmes, Karen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYMODOCEA SERRULATA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HALODULE UNINERVIS; HALOPHILA; HYDRODYNAMICS; MALAYSIA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL DEFECT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRUCTURES; SEAGRASS; SEAGRASS COLONIZATION; SEDIMENT BURIAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SYRINGODIUM ISOETIFOLIUM; WATER DEPTH;

ALGORITHMS; ALISMATIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MALAYSIA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84900327586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086782     Document Type: Article

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