680
Index
need for program, 602
no-take areas, GBR, 614
non-prescriptive approaches, 611
outlook, 616
conservation
prescriptive approaches, 610
principles, 595
priorities, 606
protection strategies, 610
public education, 605
rate of recovery, 603
remote areas, 614
research prorities, 609
scale factors, 607
science approach, 610
species and population science, 609
species and Their distribution, 598
species extinction, 617
system-wide monitoring programs, 614
wasting disease, 603
contamination, 567
cultural value, 599
Cymodocea floridana, 17
Cymodocea micheloti, 17
decline, 551
factors involved, 569
recovery, 578
decline recovery, 575
deep meadows, 286
density dependence, 275
denuded areas, 283
depth effects, 287
eelgrass, 287
depth gradients, 286
depth range, 83
detoxification, 582
die-off, 267
anoxia, 267
sulfide, 267
direct grazing, 468
disturbance, 284
disturbances, 282
DOM
coastal ecosystems, 140
Dynamics, 271, 272, 277–286
predictions from shoot demography, 278
economic value, 598
cost of restoration, 598
ecosystem services, 597
effects of light, 277
environmental parameters, 2
epiphytes, 441
Erasmus Darwin, 602
erosion protection, 597
eutrophication, 567
evolution, 616
excess nutrients, 375
extractive benefit, 595
flower
Zosteraceae, 71
flowering, 278
flowers
Cymodoceaceae, 78
Hydrocharitaceae, 78
Posidoniaceae, 78
Zosteraceae, 78
fluid dynamics, 193
food web, 174
stable isotopes, 174
fossils, 17
four districtive characters, 2
fragmentation, 281
gap dynamics, 283
gap formation, 284
general taxonomy
Zosteraceae, 3
genetie mechanisms, 278
grazers, 288
endangered speciess, 288
grazing, 463
growth equations, 279
heavy metals, 582
biomonitors, 582
seasonal effects, 582
high energy beds, 286
human impacts, 567
impacts of fisheries, 524
intermediate depth effects, 286
intrinsic benefit, 595
key to families, 2
landscape ecology, 626
landscape pattern
example, 626
landscape scales, 286
large-scale recovery, 552
latitude dependence, 284
latitude dependence to biomass, 284
leaf blade
epidermis, 63
site of photosynthesis, 63
leaf oxygen
internal pressurisation, 265
rapid transport, 265
velocity of transport, 265
leaves
oxygen loss for medium, 261
life span, 284
light, 304
littoral deposits, 169
management, 375
maximal rate of rhizome growth, 281
metrics, 613
migration, 562
models
strategy, 273
morphology
foliage leaf, 60
leaf Blade, 61
light effects, 83
roots, 54
seagrasses vs hydrophytes, 19
natural products, 601
Index
need for program, 602
no-take areas, GBR, 614
non-prescriptive approaches, 611
outlook, 616
conservation
prescriptive approaches, 610
principles, 595
priorities, 606
protection strategies, 610
public education, 605
rate of recovery, 603
remote areas, 614
research prorities, 609
scale factors, 607
science approach, 610
species and population science, 609
species and Their distribution, 598
species extinction, 617
system-wide monitoring programs, 614
wasting disease, 603
contamination, 567
cultural value, 599
Cymodocea floridana, 17
Cymodocea micheloti, 17
decline, 551
factors involved, 569
recovery, 578
decline recovery, 575
deep meadows, 286
density dependence, 275
denuded areas, 283
depth effects, 287
eelgrass, 287
depth gradients, 286
depth range, 83
detoxification, 582
die-off, 267
anoxia, 267
sulfide, 267
direct grazing, 468
disturbance, 284
disturbances, 282
DOM
coastal ecosystems, 140
Dynamics, 271, 272, 277–286
predictions from shoot demography, 278
economic value, 598
cost of restoration, 598
ecosystem services, 597
effects of light, 277
environmental parameters, 2
epiphytes, 441
Erasmus Darwin, 602
erosion protection, 597
eutrophication, 567
evolution, 616
excess nutrients, 375
extractive benefit, 595
flower
Zosteraceae, 71
flowering, 278
flowers
Cymodoceaceae, 78
Hydrocharitaceae, 78
Posidoniaceae, 78
Zosteraceae, 78
fluid dynamics, 193
food web, 174
stable isotopes, 174
fossils, 17
four districtive characters, 2
fragmentation, 281
gap dynamics, 283
gap formation, 284
general taxonomy
Zosteraceae, 3
genetie mechanisms, 278
grazers, 288
endangered speciess, 288
grazing, 463
growth equations, 279
heavy metals, 582
biomonitors, 582
seasonal effects, 582
high energy beds, 286
human impacts, 567
impacts of fisheries, 524
intermediate depth effects, 286
intrinsic benefit, 595
key to families, 2
landscape ecology, 626
landscape pattern
example, 626
landscape scales, 286
large-scale recovery, 552
latitude dependence, 284
latitude dependence to biomass, 284
leaf blade
epidermis, 63
site of photosynthesis, 63
leaf oxygen
internal pressurisation, 265
rapid transport, 265
velocity of transport, 265
leaves
oxygen loss for medium, 261
life span, 284
light, 304
littoral deposits, 169
management, 375
maximal rate of rhizome growth, 281
metrics, 613
migration, 562
models
strategy, 273
morphology
foliage leaf, 60
leaf Blade, 61
light effects, 83
roots, 54
seagrasses vs hydrophytes, 19
natural products, 601