Long-term trends in seagrass beds in the mosquito lagoon and northern banana river, Florida

Seagrasses: Monitoring, Ecology, Physiology, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 177-196

  Provancha, Jane A ^a   Scheidt, Douglas M ^a  

^a DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420074475     Document Type: Chapter

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