Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on shoalgrass Halodule wrightii and its epiphytes: results of a field experiment

Heck KL, Jr; Valentine, JF; Pennock, JR; Chaplin, Glen; Spitze, PM

doi:10.3354/meps326145

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Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on shoalgrass Halodule wrightii and its epiphytes: results of a field experiment

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Jr Heck KL

JF Valentine

JR Pennock

Abstract

We assessed the individual and combined effects of removing large predators and enriching water column nutrients on shoalgrass Halodule wrightii meadows in Big Lagoon, Florida, USA. To simulate the first-order effects of large predator reductions, we stocked 2.0 m 2 enclosures with elevated (~3 to 4...

Subject

Seagrass

Nutrient

Biomass (ecology)

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