Effects of excluding sea turtle herbivores from a seagrass bed: Overgrazing may have led to loss of seagrass meadows in Bermuda

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Marine Ecology Progress Series

• Publication date

  2010-11-30

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3354/MEPS08853
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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