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Author Analytic: Kikuchi, Taiji, J. M. Peres, Annikki Lappalainen, Michael Ledoyer, John C. Ogden, Erik Rasmussen and Gordon W. Thayer.
Center: CCFHR
Team: Beaufort
Title Analytic: Consumer ecology working group
Author Monographic: McRoy, C. Peter
Title Monographic: Seagrass ecosystems: Research recomendations of the International Seagrass Workshop.
Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
Publisher Name: National Science Foundation
Date of Publication: 1973
Location In Work: 41-45.
 Notes: CCFHR reprint #428, Public Domain
Keywords: CCFHR, Resource and land use, Estuaries, NOAA Fisheries
Reprint Status: 1973
 Type: Proceedings
 Abstract: A dense vegetation of seagrass produces a great quantity of organic material, and offers a good substrate for epiphytic small algae, microflora, and sessile fauna. The vegetation plays the role of sediment trap, and minute suspended particles, both organic and inorganic, are deposited in this biotope. It also creates unique microhabitas for small animals. In the case of an animal assemblage, epifauna attached to the seagrass may have close correlation with the seagrass bed, but some infauna may be a part of the benthic community of the surrounding area and not positively correlated with the seagrass bed. Regarding nekton, some fishes are permanent residents, some reside there only seasonally, and for some the seagrass bed is only a part of their daily foraging area. Nevertheless, these various components are linked together by trophic interrelationships.
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