Dynamics of seagrasses in a heterogeneous tropical reef ecosystem

In tropical Southeast Asia seagrasses can be found in three types of habitats: River estuaries (including mud flats), Shallow Coastal / Back Reef (including reef flats and lagoons) and null Water / Deep Coastal / Fore Reef. Especially those seagrass meadows growing on reef flats are characterized by high temporal and spatial dynamics. Research conducted in the Spermonde Archipelago, Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia, revealed that water motion and...