Pendahuluan
Padang lamun tersebar luas diperairan dangkal dan estuary dikawasan tropis dan, dan dikenal
sebagai salah satu ekosistem pesisir yang memeliki produktivitas tinggi. Disamping tingkat
produktivitas lamun dan asosiasi flora yang tinggi, padang lamun juga ditemukan konsentrasi
fauna yang berasosiasi yang kaya. (Thayeretal. 1975). Padang lamun, khususnya di perairan
Indonesia, didominasi oleh jenis lamun Enhalus acoroides dan Thalassia hemprichii yang
digunakan oleb hewan asosiasi (association animal) sebagai habitat. Beberapa hasil studi ten
tang komponen komunitas hewan di padang lamun menyimpulkan, bahwa ada kesamaan struktur
komunitas dan fungsi padang lamun pada beberapa daerab perairan tropis dan subtropis
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