Figure 1: Location of study sites, field photos of core sampling, separation into biomass components and measurement of leaf metrics from seagrass meadows in Moreton Bay, SE Queensland, Australia.
From: Seagrass morphometrics at species level in Moreton Bay, Australia from 2012 to 2013
(a) Field sampling locations (black dots) across a Turbidity Gradient, with sampling on the western side with low water quality and on the northern and eastern sides of Moreton Bay with higher water quality; (b) sampling sites (black dots) within the Eastern Banks, an area of varying Canopy Complexity and high water quality; (c) coring device used to collect core samples and mesh for rinsing off sediment at each sampling site; (d) core sample collected prior to rinsing using the mesh; (e) separate biomass components from a core sample (g DW m−2); and (f) leaf image used to estimate leaf length, width and area at species level using ImageJ. Numbers refer to sample sites at: (1) Myora; (2) Amity; (3) Sandgate; (4) Nudgee; (5) North Deception Bay; (6) Beachmere; (7) Port of Brisbane; (8) Cleveland; (9) Wellington Point; (10) Lota; & (11) South Deception Bay. Note: a,b) shaded green area represent seagrass distribution in June 2011 (Data Citation 1).
