1. The main impacts on marine ecosystems are summarised and the potential for their restoration is discussed in relation to their key features. Rocky shores, seagrass beds and disused docks are focused on. 2. The term restoration is used to describe intervention in the recovery process of a marine
Earth observations for marine and coastal biodiversity and ecosystems
✍ Scribed by Serge Andréfouët; Mark J. Costello; Michael Rast; Shubha Sathyendranath
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 106 KB
- Volume
- 112
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0034-4257
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