Seagrass Meadows

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  • Created on: 29-12-19 22:28
Are seagrass meadows widely distributed?
Yes
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How extensive is the seagrass meadow in Spencer Gulf meadow, Australia?
4000km2
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What type of habitat are seagrass meadows?
Coastal
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Most seagrass meadows require
soft sandy-mud substratum
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What do seagrasses prefer?
Clear light water with mild currents
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What is seagrasses relationship with sediment?
Increase sedimentation rates and organic content
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Seagrasses first appeared
100mya
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Most seagrasses within how many genera?
3
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Leaves with sheaves live in
high energy environments
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What transports oxygen to lower structure
Lacuna system
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Rhizomes spread
horizontally
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How do seagrasses reproduce
sexually
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Algae, sponges, hydroids, sea anemones, snails and bryozoans are examples of
Epibionts
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High structural complexity of meadow provides?
All
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Green turtles forage during
day time
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Sea cows have cheek teeth adapted to
grinding cellulose rich vegetation
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During feeding dugongs create what?
tracks
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Manatees have a wider or small range than dugongs?
wider
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Manatees have a more generalist diet including
all
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Seagrasses bury what % of the estimated organic carbon buried by the ocean
10%
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What percent of the oceans surface do seagrass meadows occupy?
0.2%
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The lack of stability and resuspension of sediment in meadows means
organic carbon can be preserved in soils for millannia
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What gets trapped in meadow blades?
all
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Which researchers found microplastic trapped in seagrass sediment?
(Huang et al,. 2019)
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Ecosystem services estimated at what by (Short, 2011)?
US$34,000 per ha
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Construction of a single harbour in France directly destroyed ?? ha and indirectly ??ha
11ha and 68ha
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Why does removal of coastal vegetation threaten seagrass meadows?
affects water clarity
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An estimated total area of ??? was lost globally between 1879 and 2006
3370km2
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Losses of two football pitches every
minute
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in how many yrs did a transplanted area merge into natrual meadow in Australia?
5
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