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Seagrass Meadows - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Without oxygen for decomposition, dead organisms become part of the substrate instead of decaying As a result, the meadows store large quantities of carbon A single acre of seagrass meadow can sequester 740 pounds of carbon per year Seagrass meadows store an estimated 18 percent of ocean carbon, despite covering just 0 1 percent of the ocean
Seagrass Meadows – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Seagrass Meadows Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world's leading non-profit oceanographic research organization Our mission is to explore and understand the ocean and to educate scientists, students, decision-makers, and the public
Coastal Ecosystems - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The narrow region where land and ocean meet is among the most dynamic and complex collection of physical and biological systems on Earth These can include seagrass meadows, salt marshes, mangroves, wetlands, estuaries, reefs, and bays often linked in an intricate network of physical, chemical, and biological interchanges above and below the
Excess Nutrients Lead to Dramatic Ecosystem Changes in Cape Cod’s . . . However, when Long and his students looked for seagrass meadows where he had seen them in previous years, there were only a few shoots of dying Zostera marina eelgrass, a type of seagrass That prompted Long and Jordan Mora , a restoration ecologist with the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, to analyze decades’ worth of local environmental
Ocean Plants - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The high diversity of phytoplankton has puzzled biological oceanographers for a long time There are over 200,000 species of of these tiny marine plants that use sunlight and nutrients to grow and reproduce at the ocean's surface
Are Sea Squirts Crowding Out Scallops? The thick, waving meadows of eelgrass provide crucial nurseries for sea life, and are a prime habitat for prized shellfish—bay scallops Carman, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, found sea squirts coating eelgrass in Sengekontacket Pond and Lake Tashmoo on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass