Plant characteristics associated with widespread variation in eelgrass wasting disease
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Plant characteristics associated with widespread variation in eelgrass wasting disease.
Seagrasses are ecosystem engineers of essential marine habitat. Their populations are rapidly declining worldwide. One potential cause of seagrass population declines is wasting disease, which is caused by opportunistic pathogens in the genus Labyrinthula. While infection with these pathogens is common in seagrasses, theory suggests that disease only occurs when environmental stressors cause im...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0177-5103,1616-1580
DOI: 10.3354/dao02962