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SEAGRASSES: BIOLOGY, ECOLOGYAND CONSERVATION

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Abstract

Understanding matter circulation in the biosphere constitutes one of the fundamental research objectives for ecologists. Stocks of materials, their distribution, and their fluxes between different compartments are basic parameters that need to be characterized to explain the functioning of any ecosystem. Their study is usually arduous owing to the variety of routes that materials can follow, and to the complexity of the processes that are involved. Leopold (1949) described matter flux in ecosystems in a brief but elegant way in what he named ‘The odyssey of the atom X’: “An atom at large in the biota is too free to know freedom; an atom back to the sea has forgotten it. For every atom lost to the sea, the prairie pulls another one out of the decaying rocks. The only certain truth is that its creatures must suck hard, live fast, and die often, lest its losses exceed its gains.”

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