Figure S1 - Conservation of Eelgrass (<i>Zostera marina</i>) Genetic Diversity in a Mesocosm-Based Restoration Experiment

Design of the mesocosm experiment using Buoy Deployed Seeding (BuDS). Flowering shoots with approximately 30 seed-bearing spathes from one of the three source populations, PM, CB, or BFI, were placed in a pearl net and floated in a mesocosm of 120 cm diameter and 42 cm depth, containing 10 cm of sand at the bottom, and with flow-through bay water. Six mesocosms were assigned to each of the source populations. Three of the six were inoculated with sediment plugs from the source location (+), and three were non-inoculated controls (−). (DOC)