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  2. Posidonia oceanica - Wikipedia

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    Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, is a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. [2] It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The fruit is free floating and known in Italy as "the olive of the sea" (l'oliva di mare [3]).

  3. Seagrass - Wikipedia

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    Few species were originally considered to feed directly on seagrass leaves (partly because of their low nutritional content), but scientific reviews and improved working methods have shown that seagrass herbivory is an important link in the food chain, feeding hundreds of species, including green turtles, dugongs, manatees, fish, geese, swans ...

  4. Zostera marina - Wikipedia

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    Zostera marina is a flowering vascular plant species as one of many kinds of seagrass, with this species known primarily by the English name of eelgrass with seawrack much less used, and refers to the plant after breaking loose from the submerged wetland soil, and drifting free with ocean current and waves to a coast seashore.

  5. Seagrass meadow - Wikipedia

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    A seagrass meadow or seagrass bed is an underwater ecosystem formed by seagrasses. Seagrasses are marine (saltwater) plants found in shallow coastal waters and in the brackish waters of estuaries . Seagrasses are flowering plants with stems and long green, grass-like leaves.

  6. Phyllospadix - Wikipedia

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    Phyllospadix is a food source for many animals including this Tectura palacea.. Phyllospadix, commonly known as surfgrass, [1] is a genus of seagrass, a flowering plant in the family Zosteraceae, described as a genus in 1840.

  7. Thalassia testudinum - Wikipedia

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    Thalassia testudinum, commonly known as turtlegrass, [4] is a species of marine seagrass. It forms meadows in shallow sandy or muddy locations in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico . [ 5 ] Turtle grass and other seagrasses form meadows which are important habitats and feeding grounds.

  8. Agricultural cycle - Wikipedia

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    The agricultural cycle is the annual cycle of activities related to the growth and harvest of a crop (plant). These activities include loosening the soil, seeding, special watering, moving plants when they grow bigger, and harvesting, among others. Without these activities, a crop cannot be grown.

  9. Enhalus - Wikipedia

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    Enhalus acoroides massive rhizomes (1.5 cm in diameter) help it stay anchored in soft mud substrates, withstanding wave action and tidal currents. it has long strap like leaves (30–150 cm) which make up a significant volume of total plant biomass of shallow water seagrass beds, because of the large structure of the leaves and where they are in the water column, they provide greater surfaces ...