
%0 Journal Article
%A Poiner, IR 
%A Staples, DJ 
%A Kenyon, R 
%T Seagrass communities of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1987/02/01
%V 38
%N 1
%P 121-131
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9870121
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9870121 
%X The seagrass communities of the Gulf of Carpentaria were mapped and classified in terms of their species composition, their areas of shoot surface and their above-ground biomass. A total of 906.4 km2 of seagrass habitat, fringing 671.1 km of coastline was identified, mapped and sampled. Eleven seagrass species (approx. 20% of all known species) were recorded. In all, 74% of the seagrass communities occur along open coastlines and are characterized by depth-zoned species distributions (intertidally and subtidally), variable shoot-surface areas and variable above-ground biomass values. Each zone was dominated bfone or two of the following species: Syringodium isoetifolium, Cymodocea serrulata, Halodule uninervis, Halophila ovalis and Halophila spinulosa. Of the remaining seagrass, 10% occurred on reef flats in mixed-species communities, !3% in a regionally restricted monospecific community of Halodule uninervis, and 4% in communities dominated by Enhalus acoroides. 
