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Translating seagrass science into action

Siti Maryam Yaakub https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5703-5189 A E , Nicole Foster https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-7391 B , Michelle Waycott https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-0564 B C and Peter Todd https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5150-9323 D
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A DHI Water & Environment (S) Pte Ltd, 2 Venture Drive, #18–18, Vision Exchange, Singapore 608526, Republic of Singapore.

B School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

C State Herbarium of South Australia, Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, Department for Environment and Water (DEW), Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.

D Experimental Marine Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Block S3, Level 2, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore.

E Corresponding author. Email: smj@dhigroup.com

Marine and Freshwater Research 71(8) i-iii https://doi.org/10.1071/MFv71n8_ED
Published: 27 July 2020


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