Unlike the majority of marine plants, seagrasses are believed to experience little damage
from the feeding activities of marine herbivores. Based on our previous work, plus a review …

The Sirenia along with the elephants and hyraxes form the Super‐Order Paenungulata.
They are the only fully aquatic mammalian herbivores and are represented by three species …

Estuaries are among the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet--critical to
the life cycles of fish, other aquatic animals, and the creatures which feed on them. Estuarine …

Dugongs and manatees, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals, live in the coastal
waters, rivers and lakes of more than 80 subtropical and tropical countries. Symbols of fierce …

We develop methodology for correcting for visibility bias by calculating and applying survey-
specific correction factors in strip transect aerial surveys of aquatic fauna and incorporating …

Abstract “[F] or most of the past 50 My, Caribbean seagrass communities have had to
withstand heavy, sustained grazing pressure from several sympatric lineages of large …

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is the only herbivorous mammal that is strictly marine. It has a
range spanning some 37 countries, including tropical and subtropical coastal and island …

In all aquatic environments, available surfaces are rapidly colonized by a variety of
organisms. If these organisms grow on plants they are called epiphytes. Seagrasses provide …

The notion that predators can affect their prey without killing them is widely supported in the
ecological literature yet rarely applied by marine mammal studies. We present three case …

Sea urchin herbivory has been demonstrated to limit kelp forest distributions but its role in
influencing distribution of seagrass habitats is inadequately investigated. During two annual …