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The Biology of Thalassia: Paradigms and Recent Advances in Research

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Book cover SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION

Abstract

The two species belonging to the genus Thalassia (Family: Hydrocharitaceae), T. testudinum Banks ex König and T. hemprichii (Ehrenberg) Ascherson are widely distributed in shallow coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics of the Western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, respectively (den Hartog, 1970; Phillips andMeñez, 1988; Spalding et al., 2003), and they are considered to be “twin species”.

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  1. Unidad Académica Puerto Morelos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 1152, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico

    Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek

  2. Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, Nijmegen, 6525 ED, The Netherlands

    Jan A. Vonk & Johan Stapel

  3. Marine and Coastal Management, WL/Delft Hydraulics, MH Delft, 177, 2600, The Netherlands

    Paul L. A. Erftemeijer

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    Jack J. Middelburg

  5. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 291 McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, 400123, VA 22904-4123, USA

    Jay C. Zieman

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Tussenbroek, B.I., Vonk, J.A., Stapel, J., Erftemeijer, P.L., Middelburg, J.J., Zieman, J.C. (2007). The Biology of Thalassia: Paradigms and Recent Advances in Research. In: SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_18

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