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- Seagrass - Wikipedia
Seagrasses are a paraphyletic group of marine angiosperms which evolved in parallel three to four times from land plants back to the sea The following characteristics can be used to define a seagrass species: It lives in an estuarine or in the marine environment, and nowhere else The pollination takes place underwater with specialized pollen
- Seagrass and Seagrass Beds - Smithsonian Ocean
Seagrasses provide shelter and food to an incredibly diverse community of animals, from tiny invertebrates to large fish, crabs, turtles, marine mammals and birds Seagrasses provide many important services to people as well, but many seagrasses meadows have been lost because of human activities
- The Complete Guide to Understanding Seagrass | World Resources Institute
Seagrasses provide humans with countless goods and services — everything from food security to shoreline protection to clean water They are found in almost every sea around the world, with more than 1 billion people living within 100 kilometers of seagrass meadows
- Why is Seagrass important? - Ocean Conservation Trust
Seagrass is one of the most valuable and biodiverse habitats on the planet and is one of the few habitats that provide multiple benefits to the environment Here’s some of the ways this wonder plant supports us and our environment… Seagrass meadows allow biodiversity to flourish
- What is seagrass | Seagrass-Watch
Known as ‘seagrass’, they are the only flowering plants that can live underwater More closely related to lilies and gingers than to true grasses, they grow in sediment on the sea floor with erect, elongate leaves and a buried root-like structure (rhizome)
- Seagrasses - National Wildlife Federation
Seagrasses are underwater plants that evolved from land plants They are like terrestrial plants in that they have leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, and connective tissues, and they make their food through photosynthesis
- Seagrass Meadows - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Seagrass meadows store an estimated 18 percent of ocean carbon, despite covering just 0 1 percent of the ocean floor They buffer against ocean acidification and wave energy and have the potential to help marine life adapt to a warming climate
- Seagrass guide: what is it and why is it so important?
Find out why seagrass so beneficial to marine species, how it can help reduce global heating and what can be done to save it
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