Seagrass meadows are among the most diverse coastal ecosystems in the Baltic Sea. There
is, however, an apparent lack of quantitative data on functional aspects of these systems …

Thirteen seagrass beds located over a 80-km range in the brackish waters of SW, Finland,
northern Baltic Sea were investigated in order to determine the environmental variables …

Seagrass meadows harbour diverse faunal assemblages, but the relative importance of
landscapes attributes, settlement processes and biological traits of individual species for …

Monthly coring for 6 mo at 9 positions along a transect extending from 15 m within to 15 m
outside a North Carolina (USA) seagrass bed revealed higher densities of macrobenthic …

Seagrass beds are some of the most productive parts of coastal ecosystems, hosting a wide
variety of associated fauna. This paper reviews recent studies of animal–plant interactions in …

The spatial arrangement of seagrass beds varies from scales of centimeters to meters
(rhizomes, shoot groups), meters to tens of meters (patches), to tens of meters to kilometers …

There is increasing interest among ecologists about how the type of matrix surrounding a
habitat patch influences the organisms living in that patch. This question is virtually …

Seagrasses comprise some of the most heterogeneous landscape structures of shallow-
water estuarine/marine ecosystems in the world. However, while knowledge at the …

Seagrass meadows represent a distinct habitat in shallow coastal and estuarine
ecosystems. We examine the role of seagrass meadows as an important habitat for fishes …

An examination of macrofaunal microhabitats within a seagrass meadow was conducted in
Apalachee Bay (north Florida). Core samples were taken from two substrata within the …