Scaling submersed plant community responses to experimental nutrient enrichment

Seagrasses: Monitoring, Ecology, Physiology, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 241-258

  Murray, Laura ^a   Brian Sturgis, R ^a   Bartleson, Richard D ^a   Severn, William ^a   Michael Kemp, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420074475     Document Type: Chapter

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