VARIATIONS IN SUCCESS OF EELGRASS TRANSPLANTS OVER A 5-YEARS PERIOD

An Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) bed in a very shallow subtidal habitat adjacent to a busy port in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, was the site of experimental transplants. Eelgrass populations were successfully established, using a variety of transplanting techniques, namely cores (plants with the sediment retained around the rhizomes and roots), sprigs (plants from which the sediment had been washed), and sprigs anchored to buried lengths of iron rod. Transplants took place in two sites “(1) a shallow channel that had eroded from the sea into the Eelgrass bed, and (2) at the landward edge of the existing vegetation. © 1990, Foundation for Environmental Conservation. All rights reserved.