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Spatial structure of seagrass suggests that size-dependent plant traits have a strong influence on the distribution and maintenance of tropical multispecies meadows

Ooi JL 1 , Van Niel KP 2 , Kendrick GA 3 , Holmes KW 4

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  • 1 School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ; School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ; The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ; Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ; The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • 3 School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ; The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • 4 School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ; Centre for Ecohydrology, School of Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
PLoS One, 2014;9(1):e86782.
PMID: 24497978 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086782

Abstract

Seagrass species in the tropics occur in multispecies meadows. How these meadows are maintained through species co-existence and what their ecological drivers may be has been an overarching question in seagrass biogeography. In this study, we quantify the spatial structure of four co-existing species and infer potential ecological processes from these structures.

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