Morphology and buoyancy-related data for Posidonia oceanica fruits

Trace Laskey1, Carlo Pipitone2,3, Arturo Zenone4,2,3

  • 1School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3FE, UK.

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|October 30, 2026
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