...Lynton S. Land Abstract Epibiotic growth of coralline red algae and serpulid worms on the marine turtle grass Thalassia testudinum is sufficient to produce carbonate mud at rates comparable to the rates of accumulation of ancient platform carbonates. GeoRef, Copyright 2008, American Geological...

...Wayne D. Bock The marine grass Thalassia testudinum König is distributed throughout the West Indian region and the island of Bermuda. Its distribution is controlled by temperature, salinity, turbulence, and depth. It supplies a substrate for many organisms including benthonic Foraminifera. Sixty...

... Spirobis sp. live as epibionts on the leaves of Thalassia testudinum, the extensive marine grass. The lime mud produced by the epibionts was estimated by quantifying 1) the life span of Thalassia ; 2) the abundance of Thalassia ; and 3) the average amount of epibiont calcium carbonate per blade...

...Figure 5. Drawing of turtle grass ( Thalassia testudinum ) showing general size and plant morphology. Mature plant compares favorably to distant smaller rhizomes and pneumatophores of black mangrove ( Avicennia germinans ). Modified from Zieman and Zieman (1989 , Fig. 2 ) ...

..., but was responsible for more than 5% of the assemblage on only three, notably both species of seagrass examined and on the rhodophyte Laurencia intricata. S. orbiculus appears to prefer flat, bare surfaces of phytal substrates such as blades of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum, to which it may semi-permanently...

... cover (presence and/or absence and relative density of the marine angiosperm Thalassia testudinum determined from diver observations). Results of these analyses indicate that bank-top bathymetry is a primary control on observed pixel DN, bottom type is a secondary control on pixel DN, and vegetative...

...Valerie Holliday; James M. Parks ABSTRACT The turtle grass ( Thalassia testudinum ) community has a significant influence on sedimentation in Florida Bay, but the roles other processes may play in the buildup of mud bank and spit sediments are poorly understood. Samples from cores taken from...

...Harold R. Wanless Abstract Shallow-marine clastic and carbonate environments of southeast Florida contain fining-upwards sedimentary sequences being generated by beds of the seagrass, Thalassia testudinum . Lateral seaward migration of flute-shaped sand pockets (storm blowouts) in the grass...

... Limestone (both late Pleistocene in age). Thick sediment in buried sinkholes in more than a few inches of water favors the growth of thick patches of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum). Shallower water and supratidally located sinkholes (that is, those partly or wholly surrounded by subaerially exposed...

... Thalassia testudinum , Nevis, north-eastern Caribbean Sea , in Pirog, R. S. (ed.), Seagrass: Ecology, Uses and Threats : Nova Science Publishers , Hauppage, New York , p. 117 – 138 . Wilson, B., and Hayek, L. C. 2015a , Distinguishing relative specialist and generalist...

... a single specimen for many of the species they recorded on Thalassia testudinum . This section compares our findings on macroalgae with similar studies, most of which were on seagrasses. The densities of epiphytic foraminifera per unit of thallus surface area on the macroalgae from New Caledonia...

... (2001) , or Murray (2006) included any of these terms in their books on foraminiferal ecology. These are, therefore, outlined briefly below. In nearshore waters in the oligotrophic Caribbean Sea, foraminifera primarily live epiphytally on seagrasses ( Thalassia testudinum , Syringodium filiforme...

... of substrates, the wide, flat blades of seagrasses provide a significantly larger available surface area for the colonization of epiphytic organisms than do macroalgae ( Waszczak and Steinker 1987 ; Borowitzka and Lethbridge 1989 ); for example, leaf blades of the Caribbean seagrass Thalassia testudinum...

...), and Boya 6 (BO). Six sampling stations were located among the four inner shelfs leeward side) with a water depth of ∼1 m within turtle grass beds ( Thalassia testudinum ). The sampling stations are shown in Figure 1 and described in Table 1 . Table 1. Coordinates (degrees, minutes, seconds...

... station at 80 m was used instead. Labels 0, 10, 20, and 30 denote stations from 2011 and 2012. Station 30 was not sampled in 2011. Refer to Figure 1 for station locations. Macrophyte codes are: Th  =  Thalassia testudinum , Sy  =  Syringodium filiforme , Ha  =  Halodule wrightii , Ca  =  Caulerpa...

... into their constituent stations. While we made an effort to only sample localities that were characterized by dense, continuous seagrass, there was some variation in the precise abundance and composition of present-day vegetation ( Fig. 3 ). At SC, CH, PP, and DS, median Thalassia testudinum abundances...