Direct measurements of light attenuation by epiphytes on eelgrass Zostera marina

By M. Brush, S. Nixon. 2002

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Impact of light limitation on seagrasses (2007, background): “Attenuation of light by epiphytes growing on artificial leaves and intact seagrass leaves have been measured and algorithms developed to calculate the influence of this optically dense layer on light received by the leaf surface (Brush and Nixon, 2002; Alcoverro et al., 2004).”
Facilitation of seagrass Zostera marina productivity by suspension-feeding bivalves (2008, result): “Other experimental studies have demonstrated the decline of Zostera marina in response to nutrients (Taylor et al. 1999, Bintz et al. 2003), light reduction (Bintz & Nixon 2001), and epiphyte load (Brush & Nixon 2002).”
Morphological, growth and meadow characteristics of the seagrass Posidonia sinuosa along a depth-related gradient of light availability (2007, background): “The light-attenuating effects of this epiphyte accumulation (Burt et al. 1995, Brush & Nixon 2002) may contribute to the morphological anomalies at this particular depth at CS.”
Eutrophication in shallow coastal bays and lagoons: the role of plants in the coastal filter (2007, background): “Epiphytes attenuate up to 90% of the light at the scale of 4 McGlathery et al.: Eutrophication of coastal bays the seagrass blade (Sand-Jensen 1977, Howard & Short 1986, Brush & Nixon 2002).”
Epiphytes of Seagrasses (2006, background): “A recent study by Brush and Nixon (2002) showed that epiphytic algae rapidly attenuated light, but that at higher epiphyte densities this attenuation leveled off to a relatively constant value as the epiphytes floated out from the edges of the seagrass blade.”
Effects of epiphyte load on optical properties and photosynthetic potential of the seagrasses Thalassia testudinum Banks ex König and Zostera marina L. (2003, background): “Intact epiphyte–leaf complexes were evaluated by measuring the transmission of broadband light through scraped and unscraped leaves (Bulthuis and Woelkerling 1983; Brush and Nixon 2002).”