The amount of the sea grass has been shrinking about 5 percent a year for each of the past 20 years, Duarte said. The warming oceans are bad for the grasses but unlike animal species, plants can ...

Oct. 29, 2021 — The loss of seagrass habitat caused a dramatic shift in fish species in Morro Bay. Areas once covered with lush seagrass meadows and unique fish species are now home to muddy ...

Globally, there are 72 species of seagrass. Here in Massachusetts, the indigenous species is called eelgrass (Zostera marina), a flowering plant of swallow waters.

During healthier times for the lagoon in the early 1990s, Lefebvre and her colleagues wanted to know the distribution, abundance and makeup of various seagrass species and how they naturally ...

Lamb’s study identified three seagrass species, Enhalus acoroides, Thalassia hemprichii, and Cymodocea rotundata, that are effective against gastroenteritis-causing Enterococcus bacteria.

The different types of seagrass found in Sarasota Bay are often referred to as the water's rainforest, because of the abundance of life they support. In fact, a single acre of seagrass can support ...

Campbell said that studies in the Caribbean show that different seagrass species harbor different types of sea life. Algae blooms have been the demise of native turtle grass in Biscayne Bay, ...

Scientists have recently discovered that Neptune grass, a protected seagrass species native to the Mediterranean Sea, can experience significant acoustic damage when exposed to low-frequency ...

Based on their skull and jaw shape, species living in the same areas did seem to specialize in different types of sea grass, so they probably weren't competing for food.

Manatees routinely eat several species of seagrass, but with the seagrass die-offs statewide, and particularly in the Indian River Lagoon, they’ve had to shift their diet to algae.