Informal group
Plants
Territories
Establishment status detail
Widespread. (Scuba Montserrat (2024). Email regarding Non-native marine species. Sent on Wednesday, June 26, 2024);
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Habitat
12. Marine Intertidal
- 12.2. Marine Intertidal – Sandy Shoreline and/or Beaches, Sand Bars, Spits, etc.
- 12.4. Marine Intertidal – Mud Shoreline and Intertidal Mud Flats
- 12.6. Marine Intertidal – Tidepools
9. Marine Neritic
- 9.10. Marine Neritic – Estuaries
- 9.4. Marine Neritic – Subtidal sandy
- 9.5. Marine Neritic – Subtidal sandy-mud
- 9.6. Marine Neritic – Subtidal muddy
- 9.8. Marine Neritic – Coral Reef
- 9.8.2. Marine Neritic – Coral Reef – Back slope
- 9.8.5. Marine Neritic – Coral Reef – Inter-reef soft substrate
- 9.8.6. Marine Neritic – Coral Reef – Inter-reef rubble substrate
- 9.9. Marine Neritic – Seagrass (Submerged)
Ecological impact detail
This seagrass has taken over the seafloor and makes it difficult or impossible for the native species that were impacted by the volcano to return/recover. It easily breaks free for the sea floor and settles elsewhere during heavy wave action. (Scuba Montserrat (2024). Email regarding Non-native marine species. Sent on Wednesday, June 26, 2024;);
References
Scuba Montserrat (2024). Email regarding Non-native marine species. Sent on Wednesday, June 26, 2024;