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    Zostera marina is a flowering vascular plant species as one of many kinds of seagrass, with this species known primarily by the English name of eelgrass...
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    genus Zostera contains 15 species. Zostera marina is found on sandy substrates or in estuaries, usually submerged or partially floating. Most Zostera are...
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    continents except Antarctica. Recent sequencing of the genomes of Zostera marina and Zostera muelleri has given a better understanding of angiosperm adaptation...
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    floor. Cymodocea nodosa, Zostera marina, and Zostera noltii were given to an adult S. salpa for testing. It preferred the Zostera noltii, therefore the Cymodocea...
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    temperate areas one or a few species usually dominate (like the eelgrass Zostera marina in the North Atlantic), whereas tropical beds are usually more diverse...
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    benthic diatoms, mats of green and yellow green algae, and eelgrass beds (Zostera marina and Z. japonica). Tidal flats in the estuary have a network of shallow...
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    Zostera noltii is a species of seagrass known by the common name dwarf eelgrass. It is found in shallow coastal waters in north western Europe, the Mediterranean...
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  • Zostera angustifolia is a marine plant with creeping underground stems. This species is similar to Zostera marina. Its leaves are narrower and are about...
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    Zostera japonica is a species of aquatic plant in the Zosteraceae family. It is referred to by the common names dwarf eelgrass or Japanese eelgrass, and...
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    currently engaged with a project to explore the culinary uses of Eelgrass, Zostera marina. Ashifa Kassam (9 April 2021). "The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain...
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    (2011-07-01). "Widespread genetic mosaicism in the marine angiosperm Zostera marina is correlated with clonal reproduction". Evolutionary Ecology. 25 (4):...
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  • shoal off the west side of the island supports meadows of eelgrass (Zostera marina) and other nursery habitats and features that play an important role...
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    stigmas of the extremely simple female flowers, Posidonia australis or Zostera marina and Hydrilla. Hydrophily is unique to obligate submersed aquatic angiosperms...
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    on Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica), but occasionally on eelgrass (Zostera marina). Electra posidoniae is a white bryozoan forming encrusting colonies...
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    available seagrasses in the sea cow's range (Phyllospadix spp. and Zostera marina) may have grown too deep underwater or been too tough for the animal...
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  • noticed. (Fall, 2005) This small limpet used to live on the blades of Zostera marina, a species of seagrass. The extinction of Lottia alveus does not seem...
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    Ness 2018 Niarbyl Bay 2018 Port Erin Bay 2018 West Coast 2018 Eelgrass Zostera marina is a legally protected species on the Isle of Man. Between 2011 and...
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    The Seri are the only people known to have harvested the maritime Zostera marina seagrass species for its seeds, before their nutritional value was discovered...
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    once the Zostera marina seagrass population declined upon exposure to a disease. The Lottia alveus were greatly impacted because the Zostera marina were their...
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    oyster banks, in burrows in gravelly sediments and on the rhizomes of Zostera marina in seagrass meadows. The larvae often settle onto man-made structures...
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    (Triticum), taro (Colocasia esculenta), date palm, (Phoenix dactylifera), Zostera marina, lily (Lilium), Pandanus heterocarpus, and ginger (Zingiber officinale)...
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    winter, rarely leaving tidal estuaries, where it feeds on eelgrass (Zostera marina) and the seaweed, sea lettuce (Ulva). On the east coast of North America...
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    in Netarts Bay. The main primary producers of the bay are eelgrass (Zostera marina, a type of seagrass), microscopic diatoms, and sea lettuce (Ulva enteromorpha...
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  • Apiogalacturonans are a type of pectins known to be found in the walls of Lemna and Zostera marina. Substituted galacturonans are characterized by the presence of the...
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  • organic carbon excretion and nutrient transport in an epiphyte-eelgrass (Zostera marina) system. Ph.D. dissertation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh...
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    such as gammarids and skeleton shrimp, as well as the seagrass species Zostera marina. The fish also feeds upon smaller organisms, including bryozoans and...
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    Ackerman, JD (1997). "Submarine pollination in the marine angiosperm Zostera marina (Zosteraceae) I: The influence of floral morphology on fluid flow"....
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    pools. It is found on rocks and boulders, and in seagrass meadows of Zostera marina and Posidonia oceanica. Although Cymodocea nodosa is a preferred food...
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    inundata and P. chesapeakensis sp. nov. isolated from the seagrass Zostera marina in the Northern hemisphere. Eur J Plant Pathol 153: 341-357. doi:10...
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    eelgrass (Zostera japonica) and native eelgrass (Zostera marina) distributions in a northeast Pacific estuary: 1997-2014". Botanica Marina. 58 (4): 239–250...
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