tropical seagrass
Long-term climate-associated dynamics of a tropical seagrass meadow: implications for the future
... the seagrass meadow area may result from new growth of the rhizomes together with increased repro- ductive effort and ...Caribbean tropical seagrass Thalassia testudinium have found that belowground ...
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The role of herbivory in structuring tropical seagrass ecosystem service delivery
... in seagrass meadows has been well-documented, but the links between food webs and ecosystem services in seagrass meadows have not previously been made ...complex seagrass-herbivore interactions. ...
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Long distance biotic dispersal of tropical seagrass seeds by marine mega-herbivores
... three seagrass species (Zostera muelleri, Halodule uninervis and Halophila ...two seagrass seeds per g DW of faecal matter were found during the peak of the seagrass reproductive season (September to ...
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Light levels affect carbon utilisation in tropical seagrass under ocean acidification
... common tropical seagrass species, Cymodocea serrulata and Halodule uninervis, were col- lected from an intertidal meadow at Cockle Bay, Magnetic Island, northern Great Barrier Reef ...at seagrass ...
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Combined effects of temperature and the herbicide diuron on Photosystem II activity of the tropical seagrass Halophila ovalis
... Tropical seagrasses are at their highest risk of exposure to photosystem II (PSII) herbicides when elevated rainfall and runoff from farms transports these toxicants into coastal habitats during summer, coinciding ...
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Model fit versus biological relevance: evaluating photosynthesis-temperature models for three tropical seagrass species
... three tropical seagrass spe- cies can be used as upper temperature limits to assess the vulnerability of these species to ocean warming, and can be implemented in future parameterisations of plant growth ...
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Dugongs and green turtles: grazers in the tropical seagrass ecosystem
... LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter surveys the literature related to: 1 the dynamics and structure of tropical seagrass communities, including how their growth form and life history strategi[r] ...
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Nitrate fertilisation does not enhance CO₂ responses in two tropical seagrass species
... previous studies, there is the need to account for differences in background light, nutrient levels and durations between experiments. This helps to circumvent the current experimental limitations in expanding our ...
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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 epiphytic ...
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Dugongs and green turtles: grazers in the tropical seagrass ecosystem
... Plots of the mean response of organic matter concentration % dm, with standard errors in the leaves o, roots/rhizomes • and whole plants A of Halodule uninervis to the different treatmen[r] ...
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Optimum temperatures for net primary productivity of three tropical seagrass species
... induced seagrass mortality in both temperate (Marbá and Duarte, 2010) and subtropical locations (Thomson et ...in seagrass meadow area and abundance in far northern Australia (Rasheed and Unsworth, ...for ...
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Seasonal environmental quality variations in a tropical seagrass ecosystem in the Straits of Malacca
... HAZEL MONICA MATIAS-PERALTA 1 and FATIMAH MD. YUSOFF 2 Abstract : The study was conducted at the Merambong seagrass meadow in Johor, Malaysia (between 01º20.046 N 103 º 35.985 E and 01 º 19.781 N 103 º 05.675 E) ...
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Interactive effects of ocean acidification and declining water quality on tropical seagrass physiology
... Temperature increase from 20 to 30ºC enhanced net productivity, leading to a carbon surplus for biomass production and carbohydrate storage in both C. serrulata and H. uninervis . This agrees with observations of higher ...
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Contrasting recovery of shallow and deep water seagrass communities following climate associated losses in tropical north Queensland, Australia
... many tropical seagrass meadows including experimental investigations in Queensland (Rasheed, 1999; 2004) and examination of small scale disturbances in Florida and the Philippines (Kenworthy et ...
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Interaction Fugacity Model for Water, Sediment and Seagrass
... In 2015, construction and reclamation for Forest City to be built on a man-made island in the Johor Strait was approved by Malaysia Department of Environment as long as they ensure that all compliance monitoring in terms ...
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Lugworm (Abarenicola affinis) in seagrass and unvegetated habitats
... resenting seagrass (Papanui Inlet) and unvegetated habitat (Hoopers ...both seagrass and unvegetated habitat, 15 sampling points were randomly chosen each season and sampled by collecting a sediment core ...
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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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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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Seed germination in a southern Australian temperate seagrass
... shoots. Seagrass samples were then sorted by hand and sieved (710 µ m mesh) to separate mature seeds from remaining vegetative material (Marion & Orth, ...
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Short Term International Study For Teachers As A Form of Experiential Learning: A Case Study of American Educators in Turkey
... have the largest mean number of TCs while other months' neutral or negative IOD years seem to (Figure 2.10b). These inconsistent results may be due to the timing of the downwelling and upwelling Rossby waves (associated ...
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