Claim · model-written summary
The immediate cause of the eelgrass decline was infection of healthy leaf tissue by a microorganism, not pollution.
- Taxon
- eelgrass
Zostera marinat0 - Organ / stage
- leaf tissuee0
- Interactor
- a microorganisme0pathogen
- Outcome
- declinee0
Verbatim
e0“The immedi- ate cause of this decline was not pollution as found recently in other estuaries, but an infection of healthy leaf tissue by a microorganism”
t0“eelgrass wasting disease”
Title
Recurrence of the eelgrass wasting disease at the border of New Hampshire and Maine, USA
Frederick T. Short; Arthur C. Mathieson; Jonathan Nelson University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) 1986
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation Eelgrass Zostera marina populations in the Great Bay Estuary decreased dramatically between 1981 and 1984.
- Observation The slime mold Labyrinthula, associated with the 1930s eelgrass wasting disease, was isolated from eelgrass tissue, as were other possibly infectious microorganisms.
- Observation The sequence of infection and die-back was documented in mesocosm and laboratory eelgrass cultures, with conditions analogous to those in the estuary.