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Continuous acoustic monitoring of physiological and environmental processes in seagrass prairies with focus on photosynthesis

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Hermand, J . (2006). Continuous acoustic monitoring of physiological and environmental processes in seagrass prairies with focus on photosynthesis. In: Caiti, A., Chapman, N.R., Hermand, JP., Jesus, S.M. (eds) Acoustic Sensing Techniques for the Shallow Water Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4386-4_14

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