Seagrass acts as a food source in supporting the productivity of living creatures that lives sorrounds, rearing areas, and sediment filtering systems. The Village Porto is one coastal villages has fairly extensive seagrass ecosystem. Seagrass, locally known "lalamong" located quite far from residential but information about condition still lacking. So, this study aims to inventory species found...

Coal is a principal fossil fuel driving economic and social development, and increases in global coal shipments have paralleled expansion of the industry. To identify the potential harm associated with chronic marine coal contamination, three taxa abundant in tropical marine ecosystems (the coral Acropora tenuis, the reef fish Acanthochromis polyacanthus and the seagrass Halodule uninervis) wer...

The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are exposed to extreme wave conditions which projected be exacerbated by rising sea levels due climate change, prompting the need for strategic planning of coastal communities and assets. Nature-based protection has been proposed as a sustainable solution promote resilience areas from physical impacts such wave-induced erosion. In this study, we investigate p...

The present study determined and compared contents of macro- (Nitrogen-N, Phosphorus-P, Potassium-K, Calcium-Ca, Magnesium-Mg) and micro- (Zinc-Zn, Iron-Fe, Manganese-Mn, Cupper-Cu) nutrients in four seagrass species big-leaved (BL) Halophila ovalis (R. Br.) Hook. f., small-leaved (SL) H. ovalis (R. Br.) Ascherson, H. spinulosa (R. Br.) Aschers. in Neumayer and Halodule uninervis (Forssk.) Asch...

This survey provides baseline information on sediment characteristics, porewater, adsorbed and plant tissue nutrients from intertidal coastal seagrass meadows in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Data collected from 11 locations, representative of intertidal coastal seagrass beds across the region, indicated that the chemical environment was typical of other trop...

The present study determined and compared contents of macro- (Nitrogen-N, Phosphorus-P, Potassium-K, Calcium-Ca, Magnesium-Mg) and micro- (Zinc-Zn, Iron-Fe, Manganese-Mn, Cupper-Cu) nutrients in four seagrass species big-leaved (BL) Halophila ovalis (R. Br.) Hook. f., small-leaved (SL) H. ovalis (R. Br.) Ascherson, H. spinulosa (R. Br.) Aschers. in Neumayer and Halodule uninervis (Forssk.) Asch...

• Relations of Lloyd's I p macrobenthic patchiness studied in 6 types seagrass. Interspecific closely correlated with unoccupancy. Less so abundance, and not mean crowding, c. correlates the expression ' a .unoccupancy + (1? ) c where > 0.8. Patchiness-unoccupancy relationship unaffected by assemblage composition. The macroecological abundance-occupancy is well known; potential one either or bo...

The degradation of seagrasses is becoming prevalent in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region due to anchor damage, sea urchin herbivory, extreme events such as cyclones and floods anthropogenic factors pollution sediment inflows. Consequently, there have been numerous efforts advance restoration degraded seagrass beds several countries region. In Kenya, experimental were started 2007 response h...

Method: Six species of seagrass belonging to the genera Syringodium, Cymodocea and Halodule were collected from their native habitat. The L-chiro-inositol content of the crude aqueous extracts prepared from different batches of Cymodocea nodosa flotsam was measured by quantitative H-NMR spectroscopy. High concentrations were found with values ranging from 22.2 to 35.0 mg.g plant dw. The presenc...