seagrass meadows
Solar radiation and tidal exposure as environmental drivers of Enhalus acoroides dominated seagrass meadows
... tropical seagrass species have a capacity for rapid recovery from loss particularly through asexual colonisation ...resilience. Seagrass meadows under reduced levels of resilience will be in a more ...
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Fish Diversity and Fish Assemblage Structure in Seagrass Meadows at Sikao Bay, Trang Province, Thailand
... Seagrass meadows provide a permanent and temporary habitat for commercial fishes such as Alepes kleinii, Ca- rangoides praeustus, Megalaspis cordyla, Scomberoides lysan, ...
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New tools to identify the location of seagrass meadows: marine grazers as habitat indicators
... of seagrass meadows remains ...monitor seagrass meadows ...International Seagrass Biology Workshop, held in October 2016, has been the view that grazing marine megafauna may play a ...
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Contributions of the direct supply of belowground seagrass detritus and trapping of suspended organic matter to the sedimentary organic carbon stock in seagrass meadows
... Seagrass meadows enhance the accumulation of sedimen- tary OC by directly supplying abundant OC from their high production (Duarte et ...grass meadows is ...productivity, seagrass shoot ...
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Tropical seagrass meadows modify seawater carbon chemistry: implications for coral reefs impacted by ocean acidification
... For seagrass to offset OA and increase the calcification rates of proximal corals, requires that seagrass meadows are in a state of net ...the seagrass plants, but in their benthic and ...
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Estimating the exposure of coral reefs and seagrass meadows to land-sourced contaminants in river flood plumes of the Great Barrier Reef: validating a simple satellite risk framework with environmental data
... This study contributes to the development of remote sensing monitoring tools and to the adaptive management approaches developed to map spatial risk of ecosystem to river plume exposure in the GBR. The Satellite Risk ...
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Habitat complexity influences the structure of food webs in Great Barrier Reef seagrass meadows
... in seagrass meadows and (2) structural complexity changes the importance of different primary producers supporting the food web (determined using stable isotope analysis) in the Great Barrier Reef World ...
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Dugong dugon feeding in tropical Australian seagrass meadows: implications for conservation planning
... of seagrass species by feeding dugongs increased in proportion to their availability for four of the five species, and that these species were consumed at equivalent rates given their available ...biomass ...
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Using a Macroalgal Functional Form Approach to Assess the Level of Disturbance of Seagrass Meadows in Bahía of Nuevitas, Cuba (2000 2002)
... across seagrass meadows at Nuevitas is much more noticeable and decisive than the temporal ...that seagrass ecosystems are very important for sustaining fisheries, along with coral reefs and ...
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Net heterotrophy and carbonate dissolution in two subtropical seagrass meadows
... over traditional chamber-based metabolism methods is that the container effect is avoided, which is known to result in underestimations of benthic respiration due to a dampen- ing of turbulent sediment-water exchange ...
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Epiphytic Bacterial Communities in Seagrass Meadows of Oligotrophic Waters of Andaman Sea
... of seagrass, such as sulphide oxidation, methane oxidation, iron reduction, nitrogen fixation and sulfate reduction that are influ- enced by seagrass leaves and certainly beneficial to the plant in ...
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Sea chordophones make the mysterious /Kwa/ sound: identification of the emitter of the dominant fish sound in Mediterranean seagrass meadows
... variability. This in turn suggests a mechanism which allows for high variability and/or multiple species emitting the /Kwa/. The unique characteristics of the /Kwa/ suggest that the morphological structures allowing its ...
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Outlanders in an Unusual Habitat: Holothuria mammata (Grube, 1840) Behaviour On Seagrass Meadows from Ria Formosa (S Portugal)
... Coastal lagoons such as Ria Formosa, can act as hotspots and sources of genetic diversity (Rodrigues, Valente, & González-Wanguemert, 2015; Vergara- Chen, Rodrigues, & González-Wangüemert, 2015). Furthermore, ...
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Outlanders in an unusual habitat : Holothuria mammata (Grube, 1840) behaviour on seagrass meadows from Ria Formosa (S Portugal)
... Coastal lagoons such as Ria Formosa, can act as hotspots and sources of genetic diversity (Rodrigues, Valente, & González-Wanguemert, 2015; Vergara-Chen, Rodrigues, & González-Wangüemert, 2015). Furthermore, ...
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Contemporary connectivity is sustained by wind- and current-driven seed dispersal among seagrass meadows
... offshore meadows, as the fruit were able to be trans- ported in the stronger ocean currents located offshore and were also less likely to be deposited on land when winds switched onshore during the ...nearby ...
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Lepidochronological Characterization of Two Seagrass Meadows of Posidonia Oceanica (Linneaus, 1813) Delile of the West Coast of Algeria (Oran and Arzew)
... In this work, we conducted a study of lepidochronology of Posidonia oceanica in the Oran region (Ain Franin) and Arzew (Cap Carbon) to assess the state of health thereof. For this, a monthly sampling was conducted scuba ...
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Community structure of caprellids (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) on seagrasses from southern Spain
... 2000). Seagrass beds of the temperate zone support large numbers of invertebrate species and individuals, thereby providing abundant food for Wshes, compared to adjacent unvegetated areas (Nakam- ura and Sano ...
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Long-term seagrass monitoring in the Port of Thursday Island: February 2012
... Enhalus meadows in Weipa, have also demonstrated a negative correlation between biomass and tidal exposure (Unsworth et ...of seagrass meadows in the port (Figure 3B). Declines in seagrass ...
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Predicting the cumulative effect of multiple disturbances on seagrass connectivity
... The seagrass networks were densely connected, indicating that seagrasses are resilient to the random loss of ...discrete meadows that are important sources of seagrass propagules and that serve as ...
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Optimum temperatures for net primary productivity of three tropical seagrass species
... many seagrass species are able to tolerate higher temperatures than coral reef habitats are able to tolerate (Pörtner et ...are seagrass meadows living close to their thermal limits that are at risk ...
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