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  • In the current climate with recent closures such as Seagrass on Southbank and others sure to follow, I'm sure staff and owners will welcome your custom, tip or no tip.

    Tomato 2009

  • Lee Groves, a 2010 semi-finalist in MasterChef: The Professionals, and head chef of Seagrass Restaurant in St Ives, has teamed up with the owners of Lanyon Holiday Cottages in Hayle, near St Ives, to offer competitive cooking afternoons for groups of friends.

    Take the Chef Challenge in Cornwall 2012

  • I just knitted a cardigan in Seagrass, and I had no loose ends, no knots - one continuous fiber from beginning to end.

    Yearn Worthy Yarn: Lion Brand Recycled Cotton 2009

  • Seagrass ecosystems are damaged by a wide range of human impacts, including dredging and anchoring in seagrass meadows, coastal development, eutrophication, hyper-salinization resulting from reduction in freshwater inflows, siltation, habitat conversion for the purposes of algae farming, and climate change.

    Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Summary for Decision-makers 2008

  • Seagrass stabilize sediments, diminishing sediment resuspension while promoting sedimentation.

    Seagrass meadows 2008

  • Photo 2: Seagrass landscape in the shallow waters of Shark Bay (W. Australia).

    Seagrass meadows 2008

  • Seagrass meadows have other important ecological functions.

    Seagrass meadows 2008

  • Seagrass meadows dissipate wave energy and protect coastlines.

    Seagrass meadows 2008

  • Seagrass encounter suitable conditions along a global area estimated at about 0.6106 km2, equivalent to 10% of the coastal ocean, an estimate of seagrass cover that involves considerable uncertainty.

    Seagrass meadows 2008

  • Seagrass meadows enhance the biodiversity of coastal waters.

    Seagrass meadows 2008

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