Contemporary connectivity is sustained by windand current-driven seed dispersal among seagrass meadows

Movement Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ruiz Montoya, Leonardo ^a   Lowe, Ryan J ^a,b   Kendrick, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal circulation; Dispersal; Population connectivity; Posidonia australis; Seagrasses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984849940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-015-0034-9     Document Type: Article

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