Eelgrass Zostera marina in subarctic Greenland: Dense meadows with slow biomass turnover in cold waters

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 518, Issue , 2015, Pages 107-121

  Olesen, Birgit ^a   Krause Jensen, Dorte ^a   Marbà, Núria ^b   Christensen, Peter Bondo ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomass; Climate change; Greenland; Production; Seagrass; Sub arctic; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD WATER; MEADOW; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; RHIZOME; SEAGRASS; SUBARCTIC REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURNOVER;

ARCTIC; GODTHABSFJORD; GREENLAND;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84920697400     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps11087     Document Type: Article

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