Attend the seminar by Dr. Penny Hall on Tuesday, September 24, at 4:00 in WC130. The title of the seminar will be: "Status and Trends of Seagrass Communities in Florida Bay: Long and Short Term Studies". Prepare a critical synopsis of Dr. Hall's seminar, and be prepared to discuss the seminar in class.

For additional information, you can read the papers listed below. If you can not attend the seminar, read at least 2 of these papers and prepare your critical synopsis of those papers.

1. "Contribution of GIS to submerged macrophyte biomass estimation and community structure modeling, Lake Geneva, Switzerland". Aquatic Botany 47:99-117, 1994. A. Lehmann, J.-M. Jaquet, J.-B. Lachavanne.

2. "Flood and cyclone related loss, and partial recovery of more than 1000 km² of seagrass in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia". Aquatic Botany 52:3-17, 1995. A.R. Preen, W.J. Lee Long, R.G. Coles.

3. "Cascading disturbances in Florida Bay, USA: cyanobacteria blooms, sponge mortality, and implications for juvenile spiny lobsters Panulirus argus". Marine Ecology Progress Series 129:119-125, 1995. Butler, et al.

4. "Mass mortality of the tropical seagrass Thalassia testudinum in Florida Bay (USA). Marine Ecology Progress Series 71:297-299, 1991. Robblee, et al.

5. "Seagrass die-off in Florida Bay (USA): changes in shoot demographic characteristics and population dynamics in Thalassia testudinum". Marine Ecology Progress Series 110:59-66, 1994. M.J. Durako. 6. "Predicting population decline: seagrass demographics and the reconstructive technique". Marine Ecology Progress Series136:267-276, 1996. S.L. Jensen, B.D. Robbins, S.S. Bell.

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