Fig. 1

An illustration of the visual contrast between seagrass meadows (left hand side) and bare sediment sandflats (right hand side). Picture taken by Roman Zajac at Kaipara harbour, New Zealand. The white rectangle encompasses 0.5 × 0.5 m

An illustration of the visual contrast between seagrass meadows (left hand side) and bare sediment sandflats (right hand side). Picture taken by Roman Zajac at Kaipara harbour, New Zealand. The white rectangle encompasses 0.5 × 0.5 m