Seagrass ecosystem characteristics, research, and management needs in the Florida big bend

Seagrasses: Monitoring, Ecology, Physiology, and Management

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 259-278

  Mattson, Robert A ^a  

^a Suwannee River Water Management District   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420074475     Document Type: Chapter

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