Gruber, Renee, Gurbisz, Cassie, Borum, Jens, and Kemp, W Michael (2022) Estuarine Seagrasses. In: Crump, Byron C., Testa, Jeremy M., and Dunton, Kenneth H., (eds.) Estuarine Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, pp. 106-141.

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[Extract] Seagrasses and other submersed vascular plants are iconic and important primary producers in estuarine habitats. They play key roles in coastal ecosystems such as supporting fisheries, stabilizing the sediment, sequestering carbon, utilizing dissolved nutrients, serving as a food source for higher trophic orders, and providing cultural benefits to society (Barbier et al. 2011). Seagrasses are a diverse group of monocotyledonous flowering plants that can grow in marine and estuarine environments {Figure 5.1). All species have belowground rhizomes from which root and leaf bundles are formed. Many freshwater vascular plants have apical meristems that enable them to grow toward the light at the water's surface. In contrast, all seagrasses have basal leaf meristems that allow continuous replacement of old leaves with new clean leaves.

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