seagrass beds
Material exchange and food web of seagrass beds in the Sylt-Rømø Bight: how significant are community changes at the ecosystem level?
... of seagrass beds. If seagrass beds are lost, the food web of the ambi- ent ecosystem is altered, and primary and secondary pro- duction, as well as the energy flow, decrease (Heck et ...
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Coexistence between Zostera marina and Zostera japonica in seagrass beds of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan
... Seagrass beds in the survey area were monitored at the five survey lines near Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Monitoring was carried out by diving observation to confirm the presence or absence of Z. marina ...
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Effects of herbivorous birds on intertidal seagrass beds in the northern Wadden Sea
... The surficially reworked patches of brent geese and wigeon may be quantitatively much more important than the conspicuous pits. During the investigation period, the seagrass beds studied were covered eight ...
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Spatial Distribution and Genetic diversity of Tripneustes gratilla in Ambon Island
... The loss of genetic variability due to Inbreeding and Genetic drift can increase the expression of recessive genes in a population so the individual becomes susceptible to disease [15, 31]. Moreover, the loss of genetic ...
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Reconstructing prehistoric fishing zones in Palau, Micronesia using fish remains: a blind test of inter-analyst correspondence
... not mutually exclusive, as specific types of habitat, such as sand flats, may occur in more than one category (Supplement 1 lists habitats included in each category). Instead, they represent the minimum range of marine ...
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Seagrass recovery in the Northern Wadden Sea?
... of seagrass area occupied over at least two thirds of the period of investigation is a minimum ...where seagrass was observed only over up to one third of the period indicates a highly dynamic state of ...
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Seed germination in a southern Australian temperate seagrass
... 2016). Seagrass beds accumulate sediment and organic matter (Bos et ...in seagrass distributions and seagrass loss can occur through burial (Ball, Soto-Berelov & Young, ...
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Tasmanian seagrass communities
... and seagrass beds located. When sampling these beds, the species, depth, density, substratum and presence of algal epiphytes were ...present)., seagrass beds in selected areas were ...
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Metapopulation structure in the lagoon cockle Cerastoderma lamarcki in the northern Wadden Sea
... Abstract Benthic invertebrates in discontinuous inshore habitats and with short or no pelagic larval dispersal are likely to exhibit regional metapopulation dynamics with partially isolated local populations. Near the ...
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DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF SEAGRASS IN BONGAO, TAWI-TAWI
... hand, seagrass beds in Bongao still indicates good condition in terms of total percentage cover, but it is believed to decrease because of rampant disturbance such as construction of infrastructures for ...
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Intertidal Habitats
... individual seagrass beds shows mixed trends around the ...Estuary, seagrass extent does not seem to have greatly changed over the last two decades (Lefebvre et ...Zostera beds has increased in ...
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Climate Regulation as a Service from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems
... in seagrass and tidal wetland habitats tend to be oxygen deficient; hence, soil respiration and the release of car bon from decaying matter by microbes and fungi are repressed, and thus bioaccumulation of organic ...
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Small format digital aerial photography for mapping and monitoring seagrass habitats in shallow temperate marine waters
... most seagrass beds (Kendrick and Lavery, ...on seagrass where nutrient levels are elevated, as increased epiphyte growth can lead to increased seagrass shading (Silberstein et ...reduce ...
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The influence of substrate and vegetation on extensive green roof hydrological performance
... The detention effect of extensive green roofs was investigated within the same project by other researchers by analysing single components and the whole system. In particular Yio et al. (2013) research focused on the ...
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Spatial patterns of seagrass dispersal and settlement
... Boxplot of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum Euclidean (straight line) distance (kilometres) between the release location and the settling location of particles across 34 simulations at ...
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Spectral Characteristics of Seagrass with Landsat TM in Northern Sabah Coastline, Malaysia
... enhance seagrass using band ratioing and RTM methods; (2) spectral analysis of seagrass within Landsat TM bands used (original and enhanced data); and (3) the extraction of seagrass by thresholding ...
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Carevan Meds on Beds
... The first thing the people on the wheelchair is their comfort so in those cases our carevan on the press of a button converts itself in to a bed and back to a chair when required so thei[r] ...
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Long-term climate-associated dynamics of a tropical seagrass meadow: implications for the future
... hours. Seagrass meadow area mapping. Seagrass meadow area and biomass were measured on the shallow water mud and sand banks (known as Alligator Bank) between the Norman and Bynoe rivers covering ~1300 ha ...
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Effect of Different Tillage Practices and Two Cropping Patterns on Soil Properties and Crop Productivity
... raised beds were associated with the increase of irrigation water productivity and the increase in available moisture capacity, total porosity, saturated hydraulic conductivity and the decrease of bulk density of ...
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Lugworm (Abarenicola affinis) in seagrass and unvegetated habitats
... the seagrass habitat were smaller and had significantly lower biomass compared with lugworms in the unvegetated habitat (also resulting in markedly greater burrowing depth of ...the seagrass habitat ...
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