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A simple mooring modification reduces impacts on seagrass meadows

Moorings can have a detrimental impact on seagrass, fragmenting the meadows, resulting in the habitat degradation. To reduce contact of the moorings with the seabed we attached small floats along the chain of a traditional swing mooring and monitored the ecological impacts of this modified mooring,...

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Autores principales: Luff, Anna L., Sheehan, Emma V., Parry, Mark, Higgs, Nicholas D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6934652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31882589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55425-y