
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Poiner, IR 
A1  - Staples, DJ 
A1  - Kenyon, R 
T1  - Seagrass communities of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
JF  - Marine and Freshwater Research
JO  - Mar. Freshwater Res.
Y1  - 1987
VL  - 38
IS  - 1
SP  - 121
EP  - 131
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9870121 
N2  - The seagrass communities of the Gulf of Carpentaria were mapped and classified in terms of their species composition, their areas of shoot surface and their above-ground biomass. A total of 906.4 km2 of seagrass habitat, fringing 671.1 km of coastline was identified, mapped and sampled. Eleven seagrass species (approx. 20% of all known species) were recorded. In all, 74% of the seagrass communities occur along open coastlines and are characterized by depth-zoned species distributions (intertidally and subtidally), variable shoot-surface areas and variable above-ground biomass values. Each zone was dominated bfone or two of the following species: Syringodium isoetifolium, Cymodocea serrulata, Halodule uninervis, Halophila ovalis and Halophila spinulosa. Of the remaining seagrass, 10% occurred on reef flats in mixed-species communities, !3% in a regionally restricted monospecific community of Halodule uninervis, and 4% in communities dominated by Enhalus acoroides. 
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