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Sea Grasses

Adaptations:  Sea grasses have adapted most importantly to salt water through developing horizontal stems called rhizomes. They also have flexible blades that bend with little resistance to water movement.
Two ways sea grasses provides food: 
1) The detritus produced by bacteria breaking down dead sea grass plants provides food for worms, sea cucumbers, crabs, and filter feeders.
2) Because some invertebrates are kept healthy by sea grasses, this provides food for birds and fish.
Migrants, Travelers, and Residents of Sea grasses
There are different types of organisms that live in sea grasses like residents, who live in the sea grass full time, migrants, who migrate to the sea grasses daily and frequently, and travelers, who visit seasonally.