It does. If you don't have the stems or the flowers coming up, you're not going to have the seed production. Therefore, if the eelgrass is going to come back, we could assume it is going to have to come back from the rhizomes that are dormant in the silt or in the soil underneath the water, the benthic part of the shallow water. I'm wondering, do we know how long these rhizomes can remain dormant and come back?
On March 4th, 2008. See this statement in context.