Seagrass epiphyte loads along a nutrient availability gradient, Florida Bay, USA
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Seagrass epiphyte loads along a nutrient availability gradient, Florida Bay, USA
Total epiphyte load, epiphyte chlorophyll load, epiphyte autotrophic ~ n d e x and seagrass short shoot size are compared with water column nutrient concentrations and the elemental composition of seagrass leaf tlssue The spa t~a l patterns ~n these parameters are described across a nutrlent ava~lability gradlent In Flonda Bay, Flor~da, USA Multivanate and un~var ia te statistical analyses were...
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عنوان ژورنال: Marine Ecology Progress Series
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0171-8630,1616-1599
DOI: 10.3354/meps159037