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Seagrass Librarian: Part Three

Its time for an update to our seagrass and seaweed library here at the ‘Notes.  Many of the following links lead to full blown papers for your reading pleasure.  A few lead only to abstracts, but if you’re lucky enough to make use of a nearby university’s library access, you’ll have the full paper.  Or, feel free to contact me.

If you’re wondering what on earth all this seagrass mummery is about, don’t worry, we’ll be back to our usual pretty photos and conservation oriented discussion tomorrow (when I’ll probably talk more about seagrass but in a more approachable way). 

Florida Bay Synthesis of Seagrass Ecology (2003)

Miller HL, Meile C, Burd AB. (2007) A novel 2D model of internal O2 dynamics and H2S intrusion in seagrasses.  Ecological Modeling. 205(3-4): 365 - 380.   

Kilminster KL, Walker DI, Thompson PA, Raven JA. (2006) Limited nutritional benefit to the seagrass Halophila ovalis, in culture, following sediment organic matter enrichment.  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 68(3-4): 675 - 685. 

Welsh DT. (2000) Nitrogen fixation in seagrass meadows: Regulation, plant-bacteria interactions and significance to primary productivity.  Ecology Letters 3: 58 - 71. 

Hansen JW, Udy JW, Perry CJ, Dennison WC, Lomstein BA. (2000) Effect of the seagrass Zostera capricorni on sediment microbial processes.  Mar Ecol Prog Ser 199: 83 - 96. 

Blaabjerg V, Finster K. (1998) Sulphate reduction associated with roots and rhizomes of the marine macrophyte Zostera marina.  Aquat Microb Ecol 15: 311 - 314. 

Hughes AR and Stachowicz JJ (2004) Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seagrass ecosystem to disturbance.  PNAS 101(24)

Lapointe BE, Barile PJ, Matzie WR. (2004) Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of seagrass and coral reef communities in the Lower Florida Keys: discrimination of local versus regional nitrogen sources. J. Exp Mar Bio and Eco. 308 (1): 23-58.

Curtis JMR and Vincent ACJ (2005) Distribution of sympatric seahorse species along a gradient of habitat complexity in a seagrass-dominated community.  Mar Ecol Prog Ser 291: 81-91.

Moran KL and Bjorndal KA (2005) Simulated green turtle grazing affects structure and productivity of seagrass pastures.  Mar Ecol Prog Ser 205: 235-247. 

Orth RJ, Luckenbach ML, Marion SR, Moore KA, Wilcox DJ (2006) Seagrass recovery in the Delmarva Coastal Bays, USA. Aquatic Botany 84(1): 26-36.

Bell SS, Fonseca MS, Kenworthy WJ. (2008) Dynamics of a subtropical seagrass landscape: links between disturbance and mobile seed banks.  Landscape Ecology. 23(1): 67-74.

Eric I. Paling, Michael van Keulen, David J. Tunbridge (2007)
Seagrass Transplanting in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia: A Comparison of Manual Transplantation Methodology Using Posidonia sinuosa.  Restoration Ecology 15 (2), 240–249.

McCann K. (2007)  Protecting Biostructure.  Nature 446: 9.

And a very cool one that just came out:

Marba N, Duarte CM, Holmer M, Calleja ML, Alvarez E, Diaz-Almela E, Garcias-Bonet N. (2008) Sedimentary iron inputs stimulate seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) population growth in carbonate sediments.  Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 76(3): 710-713.