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Masini, Raymond J.; Anderson, Paul K.; McComb, Arthur J. (detail)
   
2001
A Halodule-dominated community in a subtropical embayment: physical environment, productivity, biomass, and impact of dugong grazing.
Aquatic Botany 71: 179-197. 5 tabs. 5 figs.
–Observations at Shark Bay, Australia, suggested that local dominance of a Halodule-Penicillus community is dependent on exclusion of competitots by freshwater and sediment inflows. High levels of UV radiation may set the latitudinal limit of H. uninervis distribution. Dugong rooting may redistribute nutrients and stimulate nitrogen fixation and productivity. Halodule rhizomes may provide dugongs with maximal energy return for foraging effort, and be more important to dugongs than Halodule leaves.

Related Index Records (5)

Australia
  x 2001 Masini et al. (DD; Shark Bay; grazing on Halodule; 179-197.)

Behavior, Ingestive
(SEE ALSO: Behavior, Epimeletic; Behavior, Et-epimeletic; Food; Mastication; Milk)
  x 2001 Masini et al. (DD; Shark Bay, Australia; Halodule; 189, 191-192, 194-195.)

Community Ecology
(SEE ALSO: Food; Food Plants; Natural Enemies; Paleoecology; Parasites; Parasitology)
  x * 2001 Masini et al. (Shark Bay, Australia; impact of dugong grazing on seagrass communities; 179-197.)

Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 2001 Masini et al. (Shark Bay, Australia; impact of grazing on Halodule; 179-197.)

Food Plants: Halodule uninervis
(Potamogetonaceae)
  x * 2001 Masini et al. (Shark Bay, Australia; distr., productivity, & impact of dugong grazing; 179-197.)


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