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Seagrass Nursery Function

Seagrass Nursery Function is an ecological construct that denotes the role of seagrass habitats in providing shelter, food, and growth conditions for juvenile marine organisms, thereby enhancing their survival and recruitment into adult populations.

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Critical evaluation of the nursery role hypothesis for seagrass meadows

KL Heck Hay, Graeme C. Hays · Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2003 · 937 citations · Full text

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How important are mangroves and seagrass beds for coral-reef fish? The nursery hypothesis tested on an island scale

Ivan Nagelkerken, C.M Roberts, G. van der Velde et al. · Marine Ecology Progress Series · 2002 · 409 citations · Full text

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The ecology of eelgrass meadows of the Atlantic coast: a community profile

Gordon W. Thayer, W. J. Kenworthy, Mark S. Fonseca · 1984 · 238 citations · Full text

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The Nursery Role of Seagrass Meadows in the Upper and Lower Reaches of the Chesapeake Bay

Kenneth L. Heck, Timothy A. Thoman · Estuaries · 1984 · 235 citations

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Seed-bank development, germination and early seedling survival of two seagrass species from The Netherlands: Zostera marina L. and Zostera noltii hornem

M. J. M. Hootsmans, Jan E. Vermaat, W. van Vierssen · Aquatic Botany · 1987 · 198 citations

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Authors

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  1. CM
    Calvin McMillan

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    3 publications · 131 citations

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  2. IN
    Ivan Nagelkerken

    The University of Adelaide, Australia

    3 publications · 501 citations

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    Richard K. F. Unsworth

    Swansea University, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 100 citations

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  4. KL
    Kenneth L. Heck

    Dauphin Island Sea Lab, United States

    2 publications · 245 citations

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    Gary A. Kendrick

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    2 publications · 56 citations

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Institutions

138

  1. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

    Silver Spring, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    443 citations

  2. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

    Tallahassee, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    146 citations

  3. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    198 citations

  4. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    131 citations

  5. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    727 citations

  6. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    84 citations

  7. University of North Carolina Wilmington

    Wilmington, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    132 citations

  8. Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies

    Esporles, Spain

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    144 citations

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  1. Aquatic Botany

    10 publications · 527 citations

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  2. Marine Ecology Progress Series

    MEPS · 6 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. Marine Biology

    4 publications · 198 citations

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  5. PLoS ONE

    3 publications · 61 citations

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