Warming seas can threaten the hidden relationship that supports seagrass meadows
- Written by Renske Jongen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
On the western side of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, sits Myuna Bay, a quiet bay with meadows of seagrass waving beneath the water. The most common marine plant species you find there is Zostera muelleri. It has long ribbon-like leaves that grow from stems (called rhizomes) buried beneath the sediment and provides important shelter...
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