ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021
Local Victory: Assessing Interspecific Competition in Seagrass From a Trait-Based Perspective.
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- A trait-based framework for seagrass ecology: Trends and prospects.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Pooled it
- Two sides of the coin: Feedback-driven landscape formation results in trade-off between establishment and resilience of marram grass.Oecologia · 2025Article
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Abstract
Tropical seagrass meadows are formed by an array of seagrass species that share the same space. Species sharing the same plot are competing for resources, namely light and inorganic nutrients, which results in the capacity of some species to preempt space from others. However, the drivers behind seagrass species competition are not completely understood. In this work, we studied the competitive interactions among tropical seagrass species of Unguja Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania) using a trait-based approach. We quantified the abundance of eight seagrass species under different trophic states, and selected nine traits related to light and inorganic nutrient preemption to characterize the functional strategy of the species (leaf maximum length and width, leaves per shoot, leaf mass area, vertical rhizome length, shoots per meter of ramet, rhizome diameter, roots per meter of ramet, and root maximum length). From the seagrass abundance we calculated the probability of space preemption between pairs of seagrass species and for each individual seagrass species under the different trophic states. Species had different probabilities of space preemption, with the climax species
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