Seagrass Ecosystems

Environment of coastal waters is receiving enough sunlight can penetrate to the bottom waters. In these waters are also rich in nutrients as it gets supplies from two places namely land and ocean ecosystems so that a high organic productivity. Because of a very supportive environment in the coastal waters of the seagrass plants can live and develop optimally. Seagrass is defined as the only flowering plants (Angiospermae) that is able to adapt fully in high salinity waters or buried alive in the water and have Rhizoma, leaves, and the true root. Some experts also defines seagrass (Seagrass) as the flowering of water plants, marine life in the water, vascular, leafy, berimpang, roots, and multiply by seeds and shoots.

Because the pattern of life is often a carpet of seagrass, the term is also known seagrass beds (Seagrass beds), namely the spread of seagrass vegetation that covers a coastal area / shallow sea, formed of one kind or more with a density of dense or sparse. While the system (organization) of seagrass ecology of biotic and abiotic components called Seagrass Ecosystems (Seagrass ecosystem). Seagrass habitats where life is a bit sandy and shallow water are often also found in coral reefs.

Seagrass ecosystems have very specific ecological conditions and vary with mangrove and coral reef ecosystems. Ecological characteristics of the seagrass beds include:

1. There is a sloping coastal waters, on the plains of mud / sand

2. At the lower limit of the tidal areas near mangroves or coral reefs in the plains

3. Able to live up to a depth of 30 meters, in the calm and sheltered waters

4. Highly dependent on the sunlight that entered the waters

5. Able to perform in an optimal metabolic process if the overall body of water including recycling generative sets

6. Able to live in salt water media

7. Having a well-developed root system