Shelby Thomas U.R. - Week in Review

This past week we worked on analyzing the seagrass transects and different ways to graph the data. It was quite interesting to see how the data has changed over the years and how much the sea grass beds have diminished. It makes me wonder what effects will come about from these diminishing seagrass beds and how it will change the eating patterns of the marine life that thrive off it. I designed a graph that shows the change over time from 1998 summer seagrass transect and 2010 summer seagrass transect. There is a drop in seagrass coverage and shoot counts but not nearly as much of a drop that we recorded on our field experience. It was astonishing looking at how much the beds have changed now from then. The seagrass species we recorded from the Indian Lagoon was all Halodule Wrightii. The graph I have bellow shows the comparison in seagrass coverage in 1998 and then in 2010.