Effect of grazing by Canada geese Branta canadensis on an intertidal eelgrass Zostera marina meadow

• Main Authors: Rivers, David O., Short, Frederick T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2007
• Subjects: Eelgras · Zostera marina · Grazing · Canada goose · SeagrassNet · Climate change; Canada; Fishing Island; Branta canadensis; Canada Goose
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/jel/255; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1400&context=jel

Fishing Island, in Portsmouth Harbor on the Maine–New Hampshire border (USA), is the site of an intertidal eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) bed that is part of SeagrassNet, an international program for long-term seagrass monitoring. Eelgrass bed parameters of canopy height, percent cover, and abovegroun...