Sentences with phrase «in seagrass»

Rug: Margolin Polypropylene Indoor / Outdoor in Seagrass by Stark (starkcarpet.com).

The dwarf seahorse, which resides in seagrass located throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean, is threatened with extinction from pollution caused by the Gulf oil spill disaster.

Its recognizable shell is often seen in the seagrass beds, particularly around Ambergris Caye, and especially when snorkeling or diving.

The shallow bottom extends quite far out and in many areas is covered in seagrass.

Finally, while in the seagrass and mangrove zones, keep a keen eye and ear out for passing boats.

For example, over 95 % of the carbon in seagrass meadows is stored in the soils *.

A new study from across British Columbia shows that fish diversity in seagrass meadows is lower where there is more human disturbance.

In seagrass systems, tiny grazers promote healthy seagrasses by ensuring algae is quickly consumed rather than overgrowing the seagrass.

Among other things, the study confirms that the dolphins» most - eaten food is a fish that lives in seagrass, a sensitive ecosystem.

The goal, as stated in the bill summary, is to «Restrict the types of mechanically powered fishing gear in seagrass areas that could be harmful to the grass» and to «Identify harmful pesticides and chemicals to seagreass and make recommendations in regards to restricting their use in seagrass areas.»

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ATHENS / PATRAS, Greece, May 3 - Greek student Stavros Tsompanidis was walking on a beach when he saw a business idea in the piles of dried - up seagrass.

Conservationists warned it could hasten the demise of the World Heritage - listed reef, which is already considered to be in «poor» health, with dredging smothering corals and seagrasses and exposing them to poisons and elevated levels of nutrients.

Other living organisms indicating the Earth is far more than a few thousands of years old include Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea.

Specimens of that species may be up to 100,000 years of age, e.g., see the 2012 article «Portuguese scientists discover world's oldest living organism» at theportugalnews.com/news/view/1152-20 or see the February 2012 paper, «Implications of Extreme Life Span in Clonal Organisms: Millenary Clones in Meadows of the Threatened Seagrass Posidonia oceanica» on which the news article was based, which is available online at the PLOS ONE website at plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0030454.

The spring tides come in over the seagrass and, when the water retreats, leave salt to crystallize.

Robert received a PhD in marine ecology from Boston University and has carried out research on salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and other coastal habitats.

Apparently, these aren't accurate, nor are the sales representatives, and you'll look like a fool when you explain that you are a holistic clinic that specifically came in requesting natural fibers such as wool, cotton, jute, sisal, reed, seagrass, or coir but it needed to hold up in a commercial building and never, ever would you have invested in nylon!

We love the boho look of these DecMode Charming Seagrass Baskets that come in a set of three (3.)

New York coasts had an estimated 200,000 acres of seagrass in 1930, and sponsors say there are only about 21,000 acres now.

The researchers also made another unexpected discovery, uncovering a significant population of the rare leaf scaled sea snake in the lush seagrass beds of Shark Bay.

LUSH LAWNS Once dwindling seagrasses and other underwater plants in the Chesapeake Bay have rebounded in recent years, providing important habitat for animals such as this blue crab.

The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

Ocean seagrass meadows reduce bacteria unhealthful to humans and marine organisms by up to 50 %, a new study shows, and they also decrease the likelihood of disease in coral reefs by half.

The researchers say that although the study focused on a habitat in Puget Sound, the results provide an important framework to evaluate other seagrass and estuarine habitats that tend to have lower inherent buffering capacity and large natural variations in chemistry.

Current methods, such as using satellite imagery, are expensive and don't provide much detail, while hand - conducted surveys are time - consuming and labor - intensive, Wilson says, who does related research in kelp and seagrass communities.

«The effects of climate change can no longer be ignored,» the narrator in the video said, noting that warming threatens seagrass and mangroves in the Everglades, which absorb carbon.

Pacella's research focused on an underwater seagrass habitat in Washington state's Puget Sound, which varied between one and four meters in depth.

Meadows of underwater seagrass plants might lower levels of harmful bacteria in nearby ocean waters, researchers reported February 16 during a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Scientists regularly visit Carrie Bow Cay to study coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows, as well as the animals that live in these unique ecosystems.

WCS has been working in the northwest of Madagascar for over 10 years to create marine protected areas to protect marine turtles and other important marine ecosystems and species including coral reefs, seagrasses, dugongs and sharks and rays.

There has been a more than 20-fold increase in the number of parrotfish in the Gulf of Mexico — a species which consumes seagrass at five times the rate of native grazers.

NATURAL CLEANERS Seagrasses, flowering plants that grow in shallow seas, can decrease bacterial contamination in the surrounding water.

The scientists said in their report that the model used in this research should work equally well in various types of marine habitat, including mangroves, temperate hard - bottom systems, estuaries and seagrass beds.

These findings elucidate the long - term success of seagrasses in warm waters and offer new prospects for seagrass ecosystem conservation.

Adam Hejnowicz added: «The main problem is that seagrasses are still not properly and adequately accounted for in formal carbon climate policies.

On page 1432 of this week's issue of Science, marine ecologists describe a three - way partnership — between seagrasses, lucinid clams, and bacteria living in the clams — that likely keeps toxic sediments from building up and killing the seagrass.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

He stressed that seagrass ecosystems also play a critical role in protecting coastlines from damaging waves.

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In turn, the bivalves and their endosymbionts profit from organic matter accumulation and radial oxygen release from the seagrass roots.

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Seagrass meadows are able to store large amounts of carbon but historically they have been virtually ignored in global carbon budgets.

A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth.

Fear of tiger sharks, for instance, helps protect seagrass from being over-grazed, which in turns pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and provides a habitat for fish and shellfish

Seagrass meadows are found in shallow coastal waters around the world.

In the study they also discuss examples where seagrass conservation has been.

The research led by Dr Richard Unsworth indicates that up to 90 % of the seagrass meadows that they examined in Indonesia have been extensively damaged and degraded over the past five years.

«However, the balance of the microbes in the soil can be disturbed when seagrass beds start to decline due to other pressures, helping the alga invade new areas.»

Seagrasses also undergo a high rate of photosynthesis that may serve to buffer changes in ocean chemistry that affect shell - building organisms.

So protecting meadows may mean worrying just as much about the partnership as the seagrasses themselves, says coauthor Tjisse van der Heide of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.