The movement ecology of seagrasses

K McMahon, K van Dijk… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A movement ecology framework is applied to enhance our understanding of the causes,
mechanisms and consequences of movement in seagrasses: marine, clonal, flowering …

Seagrasses as indicators for coastal trace metal pollution: a global meta-analysis serving as a benchmark, and a Caribbean case study

LL Govers, LPM Lamers, TJ Bouma, J Eygensteyn… - Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Seagrass beds are highly productive coastal ecosystems providing a large array of
ecosystem services including fisheries and carbon sequestration. As seagrasses are known …

Influence of pelagic sargassum influxes on the δ15N in Thalassia testudinum of the Mexican Caribbean coastal ecosystem

A Sánchez, P Gonzalez-Jones, KA Camacho-Cruz… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The conservation of Mexican Caribbean Ecosystems (MCE) involves ensuring their
capacity to provide resources and ecosystem services to society. Monitoring programs are …

Variability of the carbonate chemistry in a shallow, seagrass-dominated ecosystem: implications for ocean acidification experiments

RC Challener, LL Robbins… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Open ocean observations have shown that increasing levels of anthropogenically derived
atmospheric CO2 are causing acidification of the world's oceans. Yet little is known about …

Long range gene flow beyond predictions from oceanographic transport in a tropical marine foundation species

AI Tavares, J Assis, PD Larkin, JC Creed… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The transport of passively dispersed organisms across tropical margins remains poorly
understood. Hypotheses of oceanographic transportation potential lack testing with large …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental state and tendencies of the Puerto Morelos CARICOMP site, Mexico

RE Rodríguez-Martínez, F Ruíz-Rentería… - Revista de biología …, 2010 - scielo.sa.cr
The CARICOMP site at Puerto Morelos, Mexico was monitored from 1993 to 2005. No
significant changes in air temperature, wind patterns, periodicity and quantity of rainfall, sea …

Expansion and fragment settlement of the non-native seagrass Halophila stipulacea in a Caribbean bay

FOH Smulders, JA Vonk, MS Engel… - Marine Biology …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The non-native seagrass species Halophila stipulacea has spread throughout the Eastern
Caribbean since 2002, and could potentially impact the functioning of local seagrass …

Disturbance is an important driver of clonal richness in tropical seagrasses

KM McMahon, RD Evans, KJ Van Dijk… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Clonality is common in many aquatic plant species, including seagrasses, where
populations are maintained through a combination of asexual and sexual reproduction. One …

Facilitation of a tropical seagrass by a chemosymbiotic bivalve increases with environmental stress

DW Chin, J de Fouw, T van der Heide… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Facilitation of foundation species is critical to the structure, function and persistence of
ecosystems. Understanding the dependence of the strength of this facilitation on …

High levels of gene flow and low population genetic structure related to high dispersal potential of a tropical marine angiosperm

JK van Dijk, BI van Tussenbroek… - Marine Ecology …, 2009 - int-res.com
Marine ecosystems are traditionally considered to be highly connected, caused by long-
distance movements of propagules in an open fluid medium. But this principle is not …