Vulnerability of seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef to climate change
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Seagrass population dynamics and water quality in the Great Barrier Reef region: a review and future research directions.
Seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef region, particularly in coastal habitats, act as a buffer between catchment inputs and reef communities and are important habitat for fisheries and a food source for dugong and green turtle. Within the Great Barrier Reef region there are four different seagrass habitat types now recognised. The spatial and temporal dynamics of the different types of seagrass...
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