When the storms come in, plants could help secure natural defences. But climate change is giving them problems of their own.
Tag - seagrass
Fi Gennu
1st course: Seagrass ****
What’s the one dietary fact everybody knows about sharks? Correct, they eat human beings – as graphically shown in the creature feature film sensation of 1975, the movie Jaws (and its various good, bad, and indifferent...
Nigel Chaffey
Does this seedling taste fishy to you…? ***
NIgel Chaffey returns with another tale of asyníthchory, this time involving fish.
Plants and animals in sexual harmony
Nigel Chaffey discovers that more plants thought to leave pollination to luck possess the power of puppetry.
When is a land plant not a land plant?
When it’s an eelgrass. OK, this needs some explanation. A popular notion is that the kingdom Plantae is essentially synonymous with the term land plants. And that is understandable; after all, this group of organisms is...
Seagrasses cheat on sex!
Survival at geographic range edges, where organisms are often at the limits of their physiological tolerances, can trigger unusual responses in reproduction. Sinclair et al. describe the first observations of...
botanyone
Modelling seagrass growth and development
Transplanting seagrasses can help restore ecologically important and threatened marine ecosystems. Based on the L-system formalism, Renton et al. present a functional–structural plant model of seagrass growth that...
