| effects of climate, invasive species and anthropogenic impacts on the growth of the seagrass posidonia oceanica (l.) delile in liguria (nw mediterranean sea). | eight shallow water posidonia oceanica meadows were sampled in june 1999 along 300 km of the ligurian coast and were compared through shoot density and lepidochronology. the growth of the seagrass was examined in the light of climate fluctuations and local stresses, colonisation by alien, invasive alga caulerpa taxifolia, and effects of the oil spill from the tanker "haven", and other anthropogenic impacts. both shoot density and lepidochronology pointed to a generalised state of regression of a ... | 2005 | 16115499 |