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The disappearance of Zostera marina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Michael Graham  and
W. R. G. Atkins
Michael Graham
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of General Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory
W. R. G. Atkins
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of General Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory
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Extract

The suggestion that the enfeeblement of Zostera marina due to lack of sunshine in 1931–2 is the fundamental cause of the epidemic is not supported by the meteorological data available from 1897 onwards, or by the known extinction coefficients of the water.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , November 1938 , pp. 207 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1938

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