Seagrass Monitoring in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Data syntheses: Abstracts


Overgrazing of a large seagrass bed by the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus in Outer Florida Bay

 

C.D. Rose1, W.C. Sharp2, W.J. Kenworthy3, J.H. Hunt2, W.G. Lyons4, E.J. Prager5, J.F. Valentine6, M.O. Hall4, P.E. Whitfield3, J.W. Fourqurean1

 

1Department of Biology and the Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, Florida 33199, USA

2Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Marine Research Institute, 2796 Overseas Hwy, Suite 119, Marathon, Florida 33050, USA

3National Marine Fisheries Service, Beaufort Laboratory, 101 Pivers Island, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516, USA

4Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Marine Research Institute, 100 8th Ave. SE, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA

5U.S. Geological Survey, MS953 National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192, USA

6Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, 101 Bienville Blvd, PO Box 369-370, Mobile, Alabama 36528, USA

 

 

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