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A guide to Southern temperate seagrasses / Michelle Waycott, Kathryn McMahon, Paul Lavery. [Variant title:Southern temperate seagrasses]
Waycott, Michelle, author. ; McMahon, Kathryn, author. ; Lavery, Paul Stephen, author. ; CSIRO issuing body.
Book
D579.17701814/WAY/MAIN
Collingwood, VIC 014 CSIRO Publishing,
[2014]
Seagrasses - Southern Hemisphere. ; Seagrasses - Southern Hemisphere - Identification. ; Australia. ; New Zealand. ; South America. ; South Africa.
108 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
'A guide to southern temperate seagrasses' describes the exceptionally diverse seagrasses in the temperate parts of the southern hemisphere. This book introduces readers to the evolution, biology and ecology of the southern temperate seagrasses and presents a visual key to allow species identification using easily recognisable features. Detailed information is presented summarising the distinctive features of each species or 'complex', with brief notes about their taxonomy, reproduction and ecology.
'A guide to southern temperate seagrasses' describes the exceptionally diverse seagrasses in the temperate parts of the southern hemisphere. This book introduces readers to the evolution, biology and ecology of the southern temperate seagrasses and presents a visual key to allow species identification using easily recognisable features. Detailed information is presented summarising the distinctive features of each species or 'complex', with brief notes about their taxonomy, reproduction and ecology.
9781486300150;
https://library.australian.museum//fullRecord.jsp?recno=66813
Machine generated contents note: What is a seagrass? -- Taxonomy -- Habitats -- Ecology -- Fauna -- Human interactions -- Reproduction -- Evolution -- Bioregions -- Currents -- A unique flora -- Using this guide -- Southern temperate seagrasses key --
Species list -- Cymodoceaceae -- Amphibolis antarctica -- Amphibolis griffithii -- Cymodocea angustata -- Cymodocea serrulata -- Halodule uninervis -- Syringodium isoetifolium -- Thalassodendron ciliatum -- Thalassodendron pachyrhizum -- Posidoniaceae -- Posidonia angustifolia -- Posidonia australis -- Posidonia ostenfeldii `complex' -- Posidonia sinuosa -- Ruppiaceae -- Ruppia -- Ruppia species -- Hydrocharitaceae -- Halophila australis -- Halophila decipiens -- Halophila ovalis `complex' -- Halophila spinulosa -- Zosteraceae -- Zostera capensis -- Zostera muelleri -- Zostera tasmanica `complex' -- Potamogetonaceae -- Lepilaena -- Bibliography -- Pictorial glossary.
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