The Value of Long-Term Assessment of Restoration: Support from a Seagrass Investigation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 304-310

  Bell, Susan S ^a   Middlebrooks, Michael L ^a   Hall, Margaret O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Florida; Halodule wrightii; Monitoring; Physiological integration; Recruitment; Rhizome; Subtropical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901245295     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12087     Document Type: Article

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