This thorough and informative volume presents a set of detailed,
globally applicable techniques for seagrass research.
The book provides methods for all aspects of seagrass science from
basic plant collection to statistical approaches and investigations
of plant-animal interaction. The emphasis is on methods that are
applicable in both developing and developed countries.
The importance of seagrasses in coastal and near shore
environments, and ultimately their contribution to the productivity
of the world's oceans, has become increasingly recognised over the
last 40 years.
Seagrasses provide food for sea turtles, nearly 100 fish species,
waterfowl and for the marine mammals the manatee and dugong.
Seagrasses also support complex food webs by virtue of their
physical structure and primary production and are well known for
their role as breeding grounds and nurseries for important
crustacean, finfish and shell fish populations. Seagrasses are the
basis of an important detrital food chain. The plants filter
nutrients and contaminants from the water, stabilise sediments and
act as dampeners to wave action. Seagrasses rank with coral reefs
and mangroves as some of the world's most productive coastal
habitat and strong linkages among these habitats make the loss of
seagrasses a contributing factor in the degradation of the world's
oceans.
Contributors from around the world provide up-to-date methods for
comparable collection of ecological information from both temperate
and tropical seagrass ecosystems.
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