Significance of salinity and silicon levels for growth of a formerly estuarine eelgrass (Zostera marina) population (Lake Grevelingen, the Netherlands)

Since the early 1980s, the eelgrass, Zostera marina L., population in the saline Lake Gevelingen, The Netherlands, is rapidly declining. An earlier study, in which long-term data on eelgrass coverage in this former estuary were correlated with several environmental variables, showed only one signifi...

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Published in:Marine Biology
Main Authors: Kamermans, P., Hemminga, M.A., De Jong, D.J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 1999
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Online Access:https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/9cf8ce06-1e0d-4b6b-aaab-95b0dc860c17
https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050493
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11755/9cf8ce06-1e0d-4b6b-aaab-95b0dc860c17