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Seagrasses are flowering plants from one of four plant families ( Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae, or Cymodoceaceae ), all in the order Alismatales ( in the class of monocotyledons ), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.
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Seagrasses of a lower seral are preferred, where the area has not fully vegetated.
Seagrasses are sometimes labeled ecosystem engineers, because they partly create their own habitat: the leaves slow down water-currents increasing sedimentation, and the seagrass roots and rhizomes stabilize the seabed.
Seagrasses are in global decline, with some lost during recent decades.
Seagrasses are the basis of the food chain in Shark Bay, providing home and shelter to various marine species and attracting the dugong population.
Seagrasses are herbaceous and have prominent creeping rhizomes.
Seagrasses and plants
Seagrasses and other beach plants grow on undisturbed areas of the beach and dunes.
Seagrasses and from
Seagrasses also restrict the tidal flow of waters through the bay area, preventing the ocean tides from diluting the sea water.
Seagrasses and other debris reduce fishing effectiveness of TEDs and in some situations may block sea turtles from exiting the net.
Seagrasses and one
Seagrasses form extensive beds or meadows, which can be either monospecific ( made up of a single species ) or in mixed beds where more than one species coexist.
Seagrasses and .
Seagrasses display an extraordinarily high degree of phenotypic plasticity, adapting rapidly to changing environmental conditions.
World Atlas of Seagrasses.
* Larkum, Anthony W. D., Robert J. Orth, and Carlos M. Duarte ( Editors ) Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation ( Springer, 2006 )
are and flowering
They are commonly called " Christmas Bells ", because of the shape of their flowers and their flowering time, which coincides with Christmas in Australia.
Plants are adapted to bush fires, which can stimulate flowering.
The Apiales are an order of flowering plants.
Asterales are angiosperms, flowering plants that appeared about 140 million years ago.
There is a second bulb-shaped structure similarly reminiscent of a thalamus flower, which is represented by a cross with arms that are actually buds announcing the next flowering.
Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.
Shortly before its final " flowering ", the changes in a single minute of the Blight's life are said to exceed those of 10, 000 years of human civilization.
The Brassicales are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system.
Brassicaceae, a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants ( Angiosperms ), are informally known as the mustards, mustard flowers, the crucifers or the cabbage family.
Gymnosperms are the ancestors of the Angiosperms or flowering plants which produce a seed encased in a structure such as a carpel.
There are about 15, 000 species of flowering plants with 3, 000 species of trees ( 267 species are dipterocarps ), 221 species of terrestrial mammals and 420 species of resident birds in Borneo.
They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.
Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants.
The Cucurbitales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons.
In most flowering plants, chloroplasts are not inherited from the male parent, although in plants such as pines, chloroplasts are inherited from males.
The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.
The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees.
# Semi-evergreen moist broadleaf forest – Natural forests with > 30 % canopy cover, below altitude in which between 50 – 75 % of the canopy is evergreen, > 75 % are broadleaves, and the trees display seasonality of flowering and fruiting.
To increase plant growth, lighting systems such as metal halide lamps for growing stage only or high-pressure sodium for growing / flowering / blooming stage are used to lengthen the day or to supplement natural sunshine if it is scarce.
There are 209 native species of vascular plants in the Juan Fernandez Islands, approximately 150 of which are flowering plants, and 50 are ferns.
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In order to attract new industries, 15 states or more are issuing tax free bonds to build government owned plants which are leased to private enterprise.
In the clay are entombed millions of pollen grains and spores which came from plants growing in the region at the time.
or a skilled labor force is trained before there are plants available in which they can be employed.
They are conscious of this state's new feeling of optimism and assurance and are definitely impressed by the number of new plants and construction projects in Rhode Island.
Our take-up machines and our twister-coners are undergoing important pilot plant testing for application with new high polymer yarns, in several fiber producing plants.
When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.
If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.
A group of native trees or plants which are outstanding in a particular county can be featured at the site.
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
They are all suburban plants, relying on the roads to keep them supplied with workers.
The plants along Route 128 are mostly well designed and nicely set against the New England rocks and trees.
plants are being taught to grow ''.
I now grok you are my people -- teach plants another way.
Most are photosynthetic like plants, and " simple " because their tissues are not organized into the many distinct organs found in land plants.
Algae lack the various structures that characterize land plants, such as phyllids ( leaves ) and rhizoids in nonvascular plants, or leaves, roots, and other organs that are found in tracheophytes ( vascular plants ).
Many food plants are, or are grown as, annuals, including virtually all domesticated grains.
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