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Plant–animal interactions in seagrass beds: ongoing and future challenges for understanding population and community dynamics

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Erschienen in: Population Ecology | Ausgabe 3/2005

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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 seagrass beds, focusing particularly on studies conducted in Japan and Thailand. Although the positive effect of seagrass habitat structure on animals has been widely acknowledged, the magnitude of this effect varies greatly among studies. A comparative study on epifaunal communities and a manipulative experiment using an infaunal bivalve revealed that behavioral and life-history traits of component species and their interactions influence the observed variation. Some recent studies have challenged the previously accepted view that direct herbivory on seagrasses is rare, and has a minor effect on the seagrass community. A series of studies of dugong herbivory revealed that the marine mammal has great impacts not only on seagrass productivity but also on the infaunal community. Furthermore, it has been found that seed predators have a negative influence on seed production and the subsequent recruitment of seagrass. Recent studies have also demonstrated significant effects of fine-scale landscape patterns in seagrass vegetation on productivity, species interactions and community structure in seagrass beds. Future research integrating new concepts and theories in ecology, such as metapopulation and hierarchy theories, with new research tools, such as molecular-genetic analyses and remote-sensing techniques, may aid in developing a more comprehensive understanding of population and community dynamics in seagrass beds.

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Titel: Plant–animal interactions in seagrass beds: ongoing and future challenges for understanding population and community dynamics
verfasst von: Masahiro Nakaoka
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2005
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: Population Ecology / Ausgabe 3/2005
Print ISSN: 1438-3896
Elektronische ISSN: 1438-390X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-005-0226-z

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