Community Environmental Health Laboratory Eelgrass Monitoring 2013-Present

Occurrence Observation
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說明

About this project Eelgrass (Zostera marina), a species vital to the health of marine ecosystems is declining across the world. Help researchers track eelgrass populations. Add your reports of eelgrass presence and disappearance to help researchers understand this ecologically important underwater flowering plant! Project goal Help researchers gain a better understanding of eelgrass What participants do: Share observations of eelgrass' presence and disappearance in your local waters. Would you like to help researchers get a better picture of how eelgrass is faring worldwide? What we need to know: Is eelgrass growing in waters near you, or has it disappeared? Do you have photos? (optional) What other background information do you have that might be useful? What is Eelgrass? Eelgrass, or Zostera Marina, is an aquatic grass-like flowering plant that grows mainly in the subtidal zone in shallow coastal waters. Some plants produce tiny flowers in a “spathe”, pollinate under water, and spread by seeds leading to great genetic diversity among the plants. Others spread vegetatively by sending up lateral clonal shoots connected by “rhizomes”, runners that act to anchor the plant to the mud. Why is eelgrass important? Eelgrass is essential habitat for many commercial fish species, and its decline is correlated with the loss of fish stocks and diversity. The leaves are buoyant, rising into the water column, providing an excellent place for juvenile shellfish to attach to at a crucial stage in their life cycles when they need to feed on suspended plankton. By photosynthesizing under water, the plants increase dissolved oxygen. The root structure of eelgrass stabilizes and oxygenates the mud or sandy sediments, allowing invertebrates to settle. Identifying Eelgrass: Eelgrass grows mostly in the subtidal zone, but is sometimes exposed at low tide. Its leaves float up when submerged but lay flat when out of the water, and sometimes especially long blades float at the surface. People often confuse eelgrass with salt marsh grass, Spartina, but unlike eelgrass, that plant is rigid, standing upright out of the water, and is often visible extending above the water at high tide. Some identifying features of eelgrass to look for: Eelgrass leaves are thin, flattened blades. Inner leaves are new growth, older outer leaves begin to decay and fall off throughout the season. Blade length varies depending partially on water depth. The lower portion of the stem is surrounded by a thin sheath. Flowering plants have a spathe with male and female flowers, or may hold ovoid seeds. Flowering plants also have nearly yellow stalks (not all are flowering) The plants are anchored in the sediment with rhizomes, or runners from which other shoots and roots grow.

資料紀錄

此資源出現紀錄的資料已發佈為達爾文核心集檔案(DwC-A),其以一或多組資料表構成分享生物多樣性資料的標準格式。 核心資料表包含 737 筆紀錄。

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如何引用

研究者應依照以下指示引用此資源。:

Disney J, Farrell A, Dorn N, Taylor A, Bailey C, Garretson A (2023). Community Environmental Health Laboratory Eelgrass Monitoring 2013-Present. Version 1.1. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=eelgrass-1&v=1.1

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此資料的發布者及權利單位為 The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory。 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF 註冊

此資源已向GBIF註冊,並指定以下之GBIF UUID: 5bdf78d1-01a1-4533-84bc-6f33794ba927。  The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory 發佈此資源,並經由GBIF-US同意向GBIF註冊成為資料發佈者。

關鍵字

Occurrence; Observation

聯絡資訊

Jane Disney
  • 出處
  • 連絡人
  • Associate Professor of Environmental Health
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Anna Farrell
  • 出處
  • Former Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Institute
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd
Bar Harbor
ME
US
Nathan Dorn
  • 出處
  • AmeriCorps Environmental Steward
Maine Conservation Corps
Ashley Taylor
  • 出處
  • 連絡人
  • Community Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
ME
US
Cait Bailey
  • 出處
  • 連絡人
  • Systems Developer
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Alexis Garretson
  • 元數據提供者
  • 出處
  • USER
  • 連絡人
  • Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Community Environmental Health Laboratory
  • 連絡人
  • Community Environmental Health Laboratory
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US

地理涵蓋範圍

Primarily collected in Mount Desert Island, Maine

界定座標範圍 緯度南界 經度西界 [20.298, -122.761], 緯度北界 經度東界 [48.136, -64.297]

時間涵蓋範圍

起始日期 / 結束日期 2004-05-13 / 2022-10-21

取樣方法

What we need to know: Is eelgrass growing in waters near you, or has it disappeared? Do you have photos? (optional) What other background information do you have that might be useful? What is Eelgrass? Eelgrass, or Zostera Marina, is an aquatic grass-like flowering plant that grows mainly in the subtidal zone in shallow coastal waters. Some plants produce tiny flowers in a “spathe”, pollinate under water, and spread by seeds leading to great genetic diversity among the plants. Others spread vegetatively by sending up lateral clonal shoots connected by “rhizomes”, runners that act to anchor the plant to the mud. Why is eelgrass important? Eelgrass is essential habitat for many commercial fish species, and its decline is correlated with the loss of fish stocks and diversity. The leaves are buoyant, rising into the water column, providing an excellent place for juvenile shellfish to attach to at a crucial stage in their life cycles when they need to feed on suspended plankton. By photosynthesizing under water, the plants increase dissolved oxygen. The root structure of eelgrass stabilizes and oxygenates the mud or sandy sediments, allowing invertebrates to settle. Identifying Eelgrass: Eelgrass grows mostly in the subtidal zone, but is sometimes exposed at low tide. Its leaves float up when submerged but lay flat when out of the water, and sometimes especially long blades float at the surface. People often confuse eelgrass with salt marsh grass, Spartina, but unlike eelgrass, that plant is rigid, standing upright out of the water, and is often visible extending above the water at high tide. Some identifying features of eelgrass to look for: Eelgrass leaves are thin, flattened blades. Inner leaves are new growth, older outer leaves begin to decay and fall off throughout the season. Blade length varies depending partially on water depth. The lower portion of the stem is surrounded by a thin sheath. Flowering plants have a spathe with male and female flowers, or may hold ovoid seeds. Flowering plants also have nearly yellow stalks (not all are flowering) The plants are anchored in the sediment with rhizomes, or runners from which other shoots and roots grow.

研究範圍 About this project Eelgrass (Zostera marina), a species vital to the health of marine ecosystems is declining across the world. Help researchers track eelgrass populations. Add your reports of eelgrass presence and disappearance to help researchers understand this ecologically important underwater flowering plant! Project goal Help researchers gain a better understanding of eelgrass What participants do: Share observations of eelgrass' presence and disappearance in your local waters.

方法步驟描述:

  1. What we need to know: Is eelgrass growing in waters near you, or has it disappeared? Do you have photos? (optional) What other background information do you have that might be useful? What is Eelgrass? Eelgrass, or Zostera Marina, is an aquatic grass-like flowering plant that grows mainly in the subtidal zone in shallow coastal waters. Some plants produce tiny flowers in a “spathe”, pollinate under water, and spread by seeds leading to great genetic diversity among the plants. Others spread vegetatively by sending up lateral clonal shoots connected by “rhizomes”, runners that act to anchor the plant to the mud. Why is eelgrass important? Eelgrass is essential habitat for many commercial fish species, and its decline is correlated with the loss of fish stocks and diversity. The leaves are buoyant, rising into the water column, providing an excellent place for juvenile shellfish to attach to at a crucial stage in their life cycles when they need to feed on suspended plankton. By photosynthesizing under water, the plants increase dissolved oxygen. The root structure of eelgrass stabilizes and oxygenates the mud or sandy sediments, allowing invertebrates to settle. Identifying Eelgrass: Eelgrass grows mostly in the subtidal zone, but is sometimes exposed at low tide. Its leaves float up when submerged but lay flat when out of the water, and sometimes especially long blades float at the surface. People often confuse eelgrass with salt marsh grass, Spartina, but unlike eelgrass, that plant is rigid, standing upright out of the water, and is often visible extending above the water at high tide. Some identifying features of eelgrass to look for: Eelgrass leaves are thin, flattened blades. Inner leaves are new growth, older outer leaves begin to decay and fall off throughout the season. Blade length varies depending partially on water depth. The lower portion of the stem is surrounded by a thin sheath. Flowering plants have a spathe with male and female flowers, or may hold ovoid seeds. Flowering plants also have nearly yellow stalks (not all are flowering) The plants are anchored in the sediment with rhizomes, or runners from which other shoots and roots grow.

額外的詮釋資料

替代的識別碼 5bdf78d1-01a1-4533-84bc-6f33794ba927
https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=eelgrass-1