1. Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps.

2. "Seagrass meadows are negatively affected by impacts accruing from the billion or more people who live within 50 km (30 miles) of them, " said the report received by Reuters on Tuesday.

3. One acre of seagrass can lock away nearly 8 metric tonnes of carbon per year, which equals the CO2 emissions from a car travelling more than 3, 500 miles (5, 600 kilometres), says Seagrass Recovery.

4. They are found in seagrass, rubble - strewn sand bottom , and coral reef.

5. A dugong forages in the seagrass meadows of Shark Bay, Western Australia.

6. Horizontally swimming fish living in seagrass beds don't blend into the environment well and are easily picked off by predators.

7. Seagrass provides a protective environment in which young fish can develop.

8. Based on the ecological investigation data in Hepu Seagrass Demo Site in summer of 2006, the fuzzy comprehensive judgment and weighted average method were used to evaluate the seawater quality.

9. "Mounting seagrass loss reveals a major global environmental crisis in coastal ecosystems, " it said.

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11. Seagrass is a kind of monocotyledonous plants growing in shallow coastal area and playing an important role in maintaining offshore ecological balance.

12. It is now threatening to overwhelm the beds of a native seagrass which are important breeding grounds for fish.

13. Although most seahorses are believed to live in shallow water, some also cling to the seagrass mats that float in the open water.

14. The minute creatures, barely 2cm tall, were elusive even before the spill, found only among the seagrass in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

15. Of the 150 million people who live across this string of islands, about 100 million depend on the mangroves and seagrass beds for food and building materials.

16. Much of their success depends on the little arthropods called amphipods and isopods that graze on the seagrass blades and remove algal scum that can dim the light.

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21. Masonjones said the experience of earlier oil spills suggested it could take five years for seagrass to make a complete recovery, which represents about three generations of seahorses.

22. It is estimated that 70 percent of all marine life in the ocean is directly dependent upon seagrass, according to U.S.-based Seagrass Recovery (www.seagrassrecovery.com).

23. Found usually in sandy or algal-rich areas near reefs or in seagrass beds.