For decades, scientists speculated that seagrass seeds served only as a backup to vegetative proliferation; they settled into the sand beneath their parent plants, ready to germinate if anything untoward befell the living meadow. But according to findings published recently in Biotropica, the tiny seeds can disperse over hundreds of miles, and thereafter can germinate … Continue reading Seagrass-grazing dugongs and green sea turtles supercharge the seeds they eat