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Ecological Conservation of Seagrass Beds in the Gulf of Mannar, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Rajeshwari Mahalingam  and
Kamala Gopinath
Rajeshwari Mahalingam
Affiliation:
Seagrass Ecosystem of Coromandel Coast, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600 036, India
Kamala Gopinath
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 600 036, India.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1987 , pp. 265 - 268
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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