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THE SEAGRASSES OF The Wstern North Atlantic

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20.1 The western North Atlantic
CASE STUDIES
20.1 Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire and Maine
  FIGURE: Eelgrass distribution by depth in Portsmouth Harbor, Great Bay Estuary, on the border of New Hampshire and Maine, United States
20.2 Ninigret Pond, Rhode Island
  FIGURE: Eelgrass distribution in Ninigret Pond, Rhode Island (United States) plotted by depth for 1974 and 1992
  FIGURE: Change in eelgrass area in Ninigret Pond, Rhode Island (United States) plotted against increasing number of houses in the watershed
20.3 Maquoit Bay, Maine
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20.1 The area of eelgrass, Zostera marina, in the western North Atlantic
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