Destruction of Eelgrass, Zostera marina, by the Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera bonasus, in the Chesapeake Bay

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 1975Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Chesapeake Science, volume 16, page 205 (issn: 0009-3262,

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Authors: Robert J. Orth;

doi: 10.2307/1350896

Destruction of Eelgrass, Zostera marina, by the Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera bonasus, in the Chesapeake Bay

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Destruction of Zostera beds in the York River, Virginia, is attributed to the digging activities of the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus. The physically stable Zostera habitat with high faunal diversity and density was replaced by an unstable sand habitat with low faunal diversity and density.

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