2021年7月26日 · Seagrass meadows are critically important marine habitat, with one acre providing resources for more than 40,000 individual fish and 50 million invertebrates. More than 20 percent of the world’s fisheries rely on seagrass meadows to provide critical nursery habitat.

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2020年8月20日 · Seagrass meadows are plants adapted to live a completely submerged life in the salty shallows. Algae The term algae includes many different unicellular organisms capable of producing oxygen through photosynthesis, and are not necessarily closely related…

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2023年2月21日 · With the loss of seagrass meadows, such as what we've seen in Waquoit Bay, we're actively releasing that carbon back to the atmosphere.” Long added that using environmental monitoring data helped to put together the story of the switch from a seagrass-dominated system to a macroalgal-dominated system from the 1980s to the present in …

Seagrass meadows are plants adapted to live a completely submerged life in the salty shallows. 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1050 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a 501 (c)(3) organization.

2019年12月11日 · The tidal salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangroves that make up coastal ecosystems stow away half of all carbon stored via carbon burial; deeper waters lock away most of the rest. The ocean’s ability to soak up carbon dioxide and sequester carbon can’t keep up with the pace of current greenhouse gas emissions, leading to increased ...

2021年6月3日 · Marine microplastics are small fragments of plastic debris that are less than five millimeters long. Some microplastics, known as primary microplastics, are “micro” by design.

July 14, 2020 Jellyfish larger than blue whales? Recent accounts in the media have described the appearance of lion’s mane jellyfish in waters and beaches in the Northeast as a surprising, sometimes troubling, event, with record sizes and numbers reported from Maine to the Massachusetts south coast.

enrichment influence sediment organic matter quality in an experimental seagrass ecosystem. In prep. Spivak, A.C., M.J. Vanni, and E. Mette. 2011. Moving on up: can results from simple aquatic mesocosm experiments be applied across broad spatial scales? Freshwater Biology. 56(2): 279-291. Fox, S., Y. Olsen, and A.C. Spivak. 2010. Effects of ...