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Furman BT, Peterson BJ. Sexual Recruitment in Zostera marina: Progress toward a Predictive Model. PLoS One. 2015;10(9):e0138206doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138206.
Furman, B. T., & Peterson, B. J. (2015). Sexual Recruitment in Zostera marina: Progress toward a Predictive Model. PloS one, 10(9), e0138206. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138206
Furman, Bradley T, and Peterson, Bradley J. "Sexual Recruitment in Zostera marina: Progress toward a Predictive Model." PloS one vol. 10,9 (2015): e0138206. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138206
Furman BT, Peterson BJ. Sexual Recruitment in Zostera marina: Progress toward a Predictive Model. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 14;10(9):e0138206. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138206. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26368792; PMCID: PMC4569585.
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PLoS One. 2015 Sep 14;10(9):e0138206. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138206. eCollection 2015.

Sexual Recruitment in Zostera marina: Progress toward a Predictive Model.

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Bradley T Furman, Bradley J Peterson

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  1. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America.

PMID: 26368792 PMCID: PMC4569585 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138206

Abstract

Ecophysiological stress and physical disturbance are capable of structuring meadows through a combination of direct biomass removal and recruitment limitation; however, predicting these effects at landscape scales has rarely been successful. To model environmental influence on sexual recruitment in perennial Zostera marina, we selected a sub-tidal, light-replete study site with seasonal extremes in temperature and wave energy. During an 8-year observation period, areal coverage increased from 4.8 to 42.7%. Gains were stepwise in pattern, attributable to annual recruitment of patches followed by centrifugal growth and coalescence. Recruitment varied from 13 to 4,894 patches per year. Using a multiple linear regression approach, we examined the association between patch appearance and relative wave energy, atmospheric condition and water temperature. Two models were developed, one appropriate for the dispersal of naked seeds, and another for rafted flowers. Results indicated that both modes of sexual recruitment varied as functions of wind, temperature, rainfall and wave energy, with a regime shift in wind-wave energy corresponding to periods of rapid colonization within our site. Temporal correlations between sexual recruitment and time-lagged climatic summaries highlighted floral induction, seed bank and small patch development as periods of vulnerability. Given global losses in seagrass coverage, regions of recovery and re-colonization will become increasingly important. Lacking landscape-scale process models for seagrass recruitment, temporally explicit statistical approaches presented here could be used to forecast colonization trajectories and to provide managers with real-time estimates of future meadow performance; i.e., when to expect a good year in terms of seagrass expansion. To facilitate use as forecasting tools, we did not use statistical composites or normalized variables as our predictors. This study, therefore, represents a first step toward linking remotely acquired environmental data to sexual recruitment, an important measure of seagrass performance that translates directly into landscape-scale coverage change.

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