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Variations in Success of Eelgrass Transplants over a Five-years' Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Paul G. Harrison
Paul G. Harrison
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Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, 3529–6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2B1, Canada.
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An Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) bed in a very shallow subtidal habitat adjacent to a busy port in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, was the site of experimental transplants. Eelgrass populations were successfully established, using a variety of transplanting techniques, namely cores (plants with the sediment retained around the rhizomes and roots), sprigs (plants from which the sediment had been washed), and sprigs anchored to buried lengths of iron rod. Transplants took place in two sites — (1) a shallow channel that had eroded from the sea into the Eelgrass bed, and (2) at the landward edge of the existing vegetation.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 157 - 163
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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