Seagrass beds

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Substrate types characterizing these habitats included surfaces of dead coral, fine and coarse sands, organically rich mud-sand mixtures, wood and steel surfaces on wrecked ships, algal mats, attached macroalgae, and seagrass beds. Water depths at the various sites ranged from 0.2 to 25 meters. 

Sediment associated with seagrass beds Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia Thymidine incorporation 12... 

Pollard, P.C., and Moriarty, DJ.W. (1991) Organic carbon decomposition, primary and bacterial productivity, and sulphate reduction, in tropical seagrass beds of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 69, 149. 

Smith, A. C., Kostka, J. E., Devereux, R., and Yates, D. F. (2004). Seasonal composition and activity of sul te-reducing prokaryotic communities in seagrass bed sediments. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 37,183—195. 

Miyajima, T., Suzumura, M., Umezawa, Y., and Koike, I. (2001). Microbiological nitrogen trans-fomration in carbonate sediments of a coral-reef lagoon and associated seagrass beds. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 217, 273-286. 

Erftemeijer, P. L. A., Stapel, J., Smekens, M. J. E., and Drossaert, W. M. W. (1994). The hmited effect of in situ phosphorus and nitrogen additions to seagrass beds on carbonate and terrigenous sediments in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 182, 123—140. 

Harlin, M. M., and Thome-MiHer, B. (1981). Nutrient enrichment of seagrass beds in a Rhode Island coastal lagoon. Mar. Biol. 65, 221—229. 

Jensen, H. S., McGlathery, K. J., Marino, R., and Howarth, R. W. (1998). Forms and availability of sediment phosphorus in carbonate sand of Bermuda seagrass beds. Limnol. Oceanogr. 43, 799—810. 

J0rgensen, N. O. G., Blackburn, T. H., Henriksen, K., and Bay, D. (1981). The importance of Posidonia oceanica and Cymodocea nodosa as contributors of free amino acids in water and sediment of seagrass beds. Mar. Ecol. 2, 97-112. 

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