Sentences with phrase «with seagrass meadows»

Moreton Bay is home to six of the world's seven species of sea turtles with the seagrass meadows providing a vital feeding area.

With seagrass meadows disappearing at an annual rate of about 1.5 per cent, 299 million tonnes of carbon are also released back into the environment each year, according to research published this week in Nature Geoscience (DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1477).

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The British Columbia coast is rich with a mosaic of nearshore habitats from kelp forests to seagrass meadows to rocky shores.

The paper finds that 29 % of all historic seagrass meadows have been destroyed, primarily due to dredging and water pollution, with 1.5 % of seagrass meadows destroyed each year.