Sentences with phrase «on seagrass»

The World Seagrass Association statement — being issued ahead of a major international conference on seagrass protection in North Wales — notes that seagrass meadows are being lost at a global rate of 2 % per year.

Turneffe is home to a population of West Indian Manatees which grow to 1,300 pounds and trundle along the seagrass beds browsing on seagrass.

This is a great place to spot, you guessed it, dugongs as well as turtles as they feed on the seagrass flats nearby.

Manatees are herbivores; munching on seagrass and other plant life, resembling cows that graze for much of the day on land, bestowing upon them the nickname «sea cow».

Seagrass beds are huge feeding grounds, and chances are that you will come upon huge sting rays feeding on the bottom, and schools of parrot fish and hogfish grazing on epiphytes growing on the seagrass.

And by providing additional refuge from predators, fleshy seaweeds that drift in and out of seagrass beds can maintain larger grazer populations and enhance their positive impact on seagrass.»

The researchers found that these plant - eating animals feast on the nuisance algae that grow on seagrass, ultimately helping maintain the seagrass that provides nurseries for seafood.

This research by Virginia Institute of Marine Science and USGS researchers is the first in a series of studies worldwide on seagrass ecosystems.

Stories on seagrass - consuming bonnethead sharks, tracing whale routes through their barnacles, and which domains of science might benefit from quantum computing

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

TOUGHING IT OUT Researchers investigate what lets certain patches of seagrasses survive hot spells and drying winds when receding tides leave them as a flat green carpet on the Banc d'Arguin mudflats off the West Africa coast.

They found the sediments associated with the seagrass reduced algal growth, while the sediments associated with the algae had a positive effect on its growth.

Professor Rohani Ambo - Rappe of Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, a collaborator on the research stated: «Declining seagrass health is the result of shifting environmental conditions due largely to coastal development, land reclamation, and deforestation, as well as seaweed farming, overfishing and garbage dumping.

Without seagrass as a fishery habitat many people in Indonesia would not be able to feed their families on a daily basis.»

Sediment, which can travel long distances, will kill seagrass, exacerbating the decline in dugong populations that feed on it.

COME on in, the water's lovely — at least, where seagrass beds still line the coast.

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.

The critically endangered hawksbill turtle, with its almond eyes, black spots and hooked beak, rests on the reefs feeding on these sponges while the vulnerable dugong, a flabby mammal with a wide snout and dolphin-esque tail, circles lagoons, feeding on the reef's seagrasses.

Effects of nutrient loading on sediment bacterial and pathogen communities within seagrass meadows — Songlin Liu — Microbiology Open

The Blue Carbon Initiative currently focuses on carbon in coastal ecosystems - mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses.

Transitional bathroom clad in gray marble chevron floor tiles boasts light gray upper walls holding a polished nickel towel rack over a seagrass x-stool sat against a white subway tile backsplash in front of a walk in glass shower fitted with a gray marble chevron floor and ceiling tiles and a polished nickel shower kit mounted on a large beveled white subway tile shower surround finished with stacked corner shelves.

Soundtracked to the trembling, ethereal echo of a classical women's choir, the opening scenes swiftly establish the peaceful, slightly alienated conservatism of life on the British island of Jersey — the director's own home territory, and duly evoked with expansive, non-touristic sweep by cinematographer Benjamin Kračun in sharp strokes of seagrass hue.

The bunnies at The Animal Foundation love seagrass balls (which are a mainstay on our wish list) but find empty toilet paper rolls and cardboard egg cartons filled with hay equally fascinating.

Results from this study will be used to apply further protections to the manatee and the seagrass meadows that they rely on, and encourage restoration work within the seagrass meadows, without which, they will continue to decline.

Whilst recording manatee sightings and behaviours, in relation to human disturbance and various environmental factors, you will explore, map and monitor vast seagrass beds for the benefit of the manatees and other species that rely on these habitats.

On this project you will have the chance to explore and help monitor extensive areas of coral and vast seagrass...

On this project you will have the chance to explore and help monitor extensive areas of coral and vast seagrass beds, record populations of reef fish and assist in annual reef health check.

Drift over seagrass beds and coral gardens on the Island's first and only nationally «Advanced Ecotourism» certified tour

Enjoy a tropical breakfast on a secluded, picturesque beach, drift over seagrass be...

Travelers are sometimes unclear on the difference between sargasso and seagrass.

Seagrass Cottage was the perfect place to relax on St. John.

Turtles can be found on coral reefs and shallow seagrass throughout the year, but numbers swell during nesting season, which can be between mid-April and November, depending on the species.

landing on beaches away from seagrass meadows and kelp beds or avoiding having to land at extreme low tides.

Seagrass beds are also one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet.

They provide essential breeding grounds and nurseries for commercially important fish; mangroves and the adjacent seagrass beds retain and filter sediment from river runoff, increasing the clarity of water on the reefs; they are the first line of storm defence, absorbing the power of the wind.

Feeding on the vast beds of seagrass along the coast and estuaries of Belize, manatees are a wonder to behold.

Look for sea turtles on or near seagrass.

When you need to anchor only do so on the sand as seagrass or coral reefs are easily damaged from anchor's.

Setting out from Horseshoe Bay, you'll stalk the coastline, drifting over seagrass beds and coral gardens, before stopping at a secluded bay to fill up on a tropical brekkie.

When we talk about threatened ecosystems, seagrass meadows are not often high on society's priority list.

What better way to «give back to the Gulf» — and to the people whose livelihood depend on a healthy Gulf — than to protect the deep reefs and string of «topographic highs» in the Northern Gulf, the spawning areas for tuna, the critical places for menhaden, grouper, snapper, shrimp and others, as well as the vital — but neglected — seagrass meadows of Florida's Big Bend area, from Panama City to Tampa Bay.

The coastline and seagrass fields rely on each other to maintain a consistent and functioning ecosystem.

On a global scale, marine plants like seagrass consume carbon dioxide and convert it into plant matter.

According to Dezeen, beaches on the German coast are cleaned up regularly of seagrass to prepare them for tourist season.