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NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH
卷 53, 期 1, 页码 113-127出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2018.1513409
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Bay of Islands; environmental history; New Zealand; subtidal seagrass; water clarity; Zostera
The surface areas of 12 subtidal seagrass Zostera muelleri beds at the islands and adjacent mainland shores of the eastern Bay of Islands (35 degrees 12 S, 174 degrees 10 E), New Zealand were estimated from aerial images. It appears that little subtidal seagrass existed until after the early-1950s, so significant beds here may be a relatively recent biome. Possible explanations for recent emergence of subtidal seagrass include that debilitating periods of turbid water and pulses of sedimentation associated with the land clearances of the late 1800s had worked through the marine ecosystem. An overall peak in seagrass-cover in the 1960s to 1980s was followed by declines in several beds in the 1990s to 2000s, with recovery since. The temporal presence of seagrass was well-correlated among the three mainland beds, and moderately well among the south-facing beds on the islands, consistent with mechanisms driving seagrass establishment and persistence operating at reasonably broad scales.
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