SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION

• Main Authors: LARKUM, ANTHONY W.D (Author), ORTH, ROBERT J. (Author), DUARTE, CARLOS M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Ecosystems.; Aquatic ecology.; Plant ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Life Sciences, general.; Plant Sciences.

Seagrasses are unique plants; the only group of flowering plants to recolonise the sea. They occur on every continental margin, except Antarctica, and form ecosystems which have important roles in fisheries, fish nursery grounds, prawn fisheries, habitat diversity and sediment stabilisation. Over th...