Natural and human-induced disturbance of seagrasses

Many natural and human-induced events create Seagrasses grow in the soft or sandy bottoms of estuaries and along disturbances i n seagrasses throughout the world, bu t the coastal margins of tropical, temperate and subarctic marine quantifying losses of habitat is only beginning. Over the last '...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 1995
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.466.8302
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Summary:Many natural and human-induced events create Seagrasses grow in the soft or sandy bottoms of estuaries and along disturbances i n seagrasses throughout the world, bu t the coastal margins of tropical, temperate and subarctic marine quantifying losses of habitat is only beginning. Over the last ' waters (Fig. l), and are differentiated into two families, namely decade, 90000 h a of seagrass loss have been documented Potamogetonaceae and Hydrocharitaceae (den Hartog 1970; Phillips