Article
Understanding Changes in Seagrass Communities
Current The Journal of Marine Education
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publication Date
7-1-2017
Abstract
Seagrass is an incredibly valuable habitat in the Chesapeake Bay. Students will use mock seagrass patches, modeled after a research transect along Goodwin Island, Virginia, to analyze change in seagrass percent cover during, and following, a major die-off event in 2010. Students also analyze water quality graphs from the same time period to help them determine why the die-off may have occurred.
Keywords
- sea grasses,
- Goodwin Island,
- lesson plan
Disciplines
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Citation Information
Sarah Nuss and Celeste Venolia. "Understanding Changes in Seagrass Communities" Current The Journal of Marine Education Vol. 31 Iss. 1 (2017) p. 24 - 29 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sarah-nuss/16/