Establishing baseline seagrass parameters in a small Estuarine Bay

Seagrasses: Monitoring, Ecology, Physiology, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 125-136

  Wilzbach, Margaret A ^a   Cummins, Kenneth W ^a   Rojas, Lourdes M ^a   Rudershausen, Paul J ^a   Locascio, James ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420074475     Document Type: Chapter

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