TABLES 



Number Page 



1 Temperature, salinity, and rainfall at Key West 5 



2 Seagrasses of south Florida 8 



3 Representative seagrass biomass 21 



4 Comparison of biomass distribution for three 



species of seagrasses 23 



5 Representative seagrass productivities 24 



6 C values for gulf and Caribbean seagrasses 28 



7 Constituents of seagrasses 30 



8 A gradient of parameters of seagrass succession 40 



9 Birds that use seagrass flats in south Florida 55 



10 Direct consumers of seagrass 60 



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