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Stronger Together: Do Coral Reefs Enhance Seagrass Meadows “Blue Carbon” Potential?
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Seagrass meadows are important for carbon storage, this carbon is known as “blue carbon” and represents a vital ecosystem service. Recently there has been growing interest in connectivity between ecosystems and the potential for connected ecosystems to ...
Luis Alberto Guerra-Vargas +2 more
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The global distribution of seagrass meadows [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Abstract Seagrass meadows globally are under pressure with worldwide loss and degradation, but there is a growing recognition of the global importance of seagrass ecosystem services, particularly as a major carbon sink and as fisheries habitat.
Len J McKenzie +5 more
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The role of seagrass meadows in the coastal trapping of litter
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 The accelerated discard and mismanagement of human-made products are resulting in the continued input of litter into the oceans. Models and field observations show how floating litter can accumulate in remote areas throughout the global ocean, but far less is known about the non-floating litter fraction.
Navarrete-Fernandez, T. +5 more
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Mapping seagrass meadows in coastal China using GEE
Geocarto International, 2022 Seagrass meadows are virtual blue carbon ecosystems facing a dramatic decline on a global scale. Tracking the status and trends of seagrass meadows, which is still pending on large scales, is an emerging priority for their conservation and restoration ...
Qi Li +9 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Seagrass meadows play critical roles in supporting a high level of biodiversity but are continuously threatened by human activities, such as sea reclamation.
Shaochun Xu +8 more
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Seagrass meadows in a globally changing environment [PDF]
Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014 Seagrass meadows are valuable ecosystem service providers that are now being lost globally at an unprecedented rate, with water quality and other localised stressors putting their future viability in doubt. It is therefore critical that we learn more about the interactions between seagrass meadows and future environmental change in the anthropocene ...
Unsworth, Richard K.F. +2 more
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020 Tropical seagrass meadows and coral reefs often function as interconnected marine habitats, but they are often studied and managed as homogenous units. As macrohabitats, seagrass meadows provide important benefits to adjacent reef ecosystems by acting as
Jianguo Du +9 more
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Seagrass meadows support global fisheries production [PDF]
, 2019 The significant role seagrass meadows play in supporting fisheries productivity and food security across the globe is not adequately reflected in the decisions made by authorities with statutory responsibility for their management.
R. Unsworth +2 more
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceSeagrass meadows provide important ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, coastal protection from erosion, and sustained biodiversity and fisheries thereby improving the wellbeing and livelihoods of coastal communities.
Enric Gomis +9 more
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Coral Community Structure and Recruitment in Seagrass Meadows [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 Coral communities are increasingly found to populate non-reef habitats prone to high environmental variability. Such sites include seagrass meadows, which are generally not considered optimal habitats for corals as a result of limited suitable substrate ...
Kathryn E. Lohr +7 more
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