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This biophysical feedback loop is known to importantly influence both sediment trapping and sediment stability within a meadow, and, for bare sediments, affect seston (here defined as phytodetritus and other particulate organic matter) exchange between column water and pore water (only 1 study for seagrasses available). \r\nIn the present study, we focus on three factors that affect the biophysical feedback loop in Indonesian seagrass meadows: \r\n<ul type=disc>\r\n<li>grazing by e.g. turtles, \r\n<li>sediment loading of the water column due to e.g. riverine inputs, and \r\n<li>spatial heterogeneity. <\/li><\/ul type=disc>\r\n\r\nWe hypothesize that: \r\n\r\nGrazing will affect a broad range of hydrodynamically driven feedback process in seagrass meadows (e.g. seston exchange plus trapping and stabilization of sediment) due to modifying the meadow characteristics (shoot length & density). \r\nSeagrass meadows may buffer sediment loading in coastal systems, but that this buffering capacity strongly depends on the vegetation characteristics shoot length and shoot density. \r\nThat spatial heterogeneity will amplifies hydrodynamic energy and turbulence within seagrass meadows, and thereby enhance seston exchange between pore water and column water, but reduce trapping and stabilization of sediment. \r\n  \r\nThese hypotheses will be tested by quantifying, in a combination of flume and field experiments, the effect of: \r\nCanopy characteristics (height and density as affected by grazing) on the within meadow \r\nhydrodynamic properties and sediment dynamics; \r\nCanopy characteristics in combination with sediment porosity on the within meadow seston exchange to the pore water; \r\nSpatial heterogeneity of seagrass meadows on the afore mentioned processes. \r\nThe research is innovative in that until now, very few studies have provided insight in: \r\n<ul type=disc>\r\n<li>The consequences of grazing for seagrass functioning from an hydrodynamic perspective \r\n<li>Seston exchange within seagrass meadows (and certainly not in combination with shoot properties as affected by grazing) \r\n<li>Effects of spatial heterogeneity for biophysical interaction between seagrass and hydrodynamics. 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