How To Use Eelgrass In A Sentence
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From where we sat on the rocks at Sant Elmo we could look down and see the green and brown of the eelgrass coating the steep slopes that disappeared into the almost-violet depths.
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Scallops, oysters, and the eelgrass beds that provided nurseries for crabs and fish have disappeared.
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Larger systems are made of smaller parts, all the way down to the bits of dead eelgrass and the sand dollar and the specks its indigo bristles push toward the circle of its five tiny jaws.
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He said water plants targeted by the swans - including eelgrass, wigeongrass, and sago pondweed - act as important nursery areas for fish and invertebrates.
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Our current hypothesis is that they swim spontaneously in order to move from one blade of eelgrass, or kelp, to another; either to find more food or to find a potential mate.
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Boulders gave way to eelgrass over sand in 15m then, at 24m, the eelgrass grew sparse.
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Such plants include eelgrass, pickerel weed, water plantain, and "duckmeat" -- all of which have roots and produce flowers.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
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Eelgrass is not closely related to the true seaweeds, which are algae.
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Turtlegrass was obtained from oligotrophic waters near Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas; eelgrass was collected from a eutrophic environment in Monterey Bay, California.
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Six substrates were considered: kelp, eelgrass, clay, silt, mineralic sand from a temperate environment, and turtlegrass and carbonate sand from a tropical environment.
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At 10m the reef of boulders and rock gave way to a soft silt seabed covered in large patches of eelgrass.
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Why had they ended up in a small wilderness of sand amid hundreds of acres of boulders and eelgrass?
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These fish prefer shallow water and are commonly found in bays around eelgrass, oil platforms, pilings of wharfs and piers, and in back waters.
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Submerged vegetation consisted of dense beds of eelgrass or green algae which occurred on intertidal mudflat habitat.
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First, the significance of Nauset Marsh as a habitat for juveniles broadens considerably when other habitats, besides eelgrass, are considered.
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Both males and females are normally extremely cryptic because their color, shape, and movements look like eelgrass.
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We finned out into the light of the sandy bottom to the side of the pier for eelgrass, kelp and a much more open feel.
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Myoxocephalus aenaeus and Pollachius virens (L.) were also most abundant in eelgrass.
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During the spring migration (February-April), they are widespread and can be found almost anywhere that eelgrass grows, especially at Dungeness and West Sequim Bay.
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Purple sea stars and eelgrass flourish in the waters off the coast of British Columbia.
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Closed shellfish beds have been reopened and eelgrass have been potential long-term sources of contaminants, such as acids, solvents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and oxygen-demanding biological wastes.
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A big shoal of shrimpfish hung vertically nearby, trying to look like a growth of eelgrass.
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Once paired, they build a nest on the ground of seaweed, eelgrass, and algae, held together by droppings.
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She attributes the decline in plants such as eelgrass to pollution, high-speed water traffic and natural cyclic die-offs.