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, 2016 Around our coasts lie secret undersea gardens. Revealed only at the lowest of tides, these gardens are formed by a special marine plant called seagrass. Seagrass is vital to our coast, providing a home for marine life, including fish species like cod and
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Coral Community Structure and Recruitment in Seagrass Meadows
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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Drivers of the Low Metabolic Rates of Seagrass Meadows in the Red Sea
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Tropical seagrass meadows are highly productive ecosystems that thrive in oligotrophic environments. The Red Sea is characterized by strong N–S latitudinal nutrient and temperature gradients, which constrain pelagic productivity.
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Scientia Marina, 2015 Seagrass meadows perform essential ecosystem functions and services. Though the meadows are globally deteriorating, numerous regressions remain unreported as a result of data fragmentation.
Federico Fabbri +10 more
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Substantial blue carbon sequestration in the world’s largest seagrass meadow
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 Seagrass meadows are important sinks for organic carbon and provide co-benefits. However, data on the organic carbon stock in seagrass sediments are scarce for many regions, particularly The Bahamas, which accounts for up to 40.7% of the documented ...
Chuancheng Fu +8 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Seagrass meadows capture and store large amounts of carbon in the sediment beneath, thereby serving as efficient sinks of atmospheric CO2. Carbon sequestration levels may however differ greatly among meadows depending on, among other factors, the plant ...
Olivia J. Kalokora +4 more
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Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 2022 Abstract. Sondak CFA, Kaligis EY. 2022. Assessing the seagrasses meadows status and condition: A case study of Wori Seagrass Meadows, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 23: 2156-2166. Seagrass meadows play an important role in the coastal ecosystem through the services they provide, however, they are one of the most threatened ecosystems in the ...
CALVYN FREDRIK ALDUS SONDAK +1 more
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Dugong dugon feeding in tropical Australian seagrass meadows: implications for conservation planning [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Dugongs (Dugong dugon) are listed as vulnerable to extinction due to rapid population reductions caused in part by loss of seagrass feeding meadows. Understanding dugong feeding behaviour in tropical Australia, where the majority of dugongs live, will ...
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Journal of Remote SensingIntertidal seagrass meadows are experiencing considerable fading caused by climate changes and anthropogenic stressors, which pose threats to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Tropical seagrass meadows modify seawater carbon chemistry: implications for coral reefs impacted by ocean acidification [PDF]
, 2012 Highly productive tropical seagrasses often live adjacent to or among coral reefs and utilize large amounts of inorganic carbon. In this study, the effect of seagrass productivity on seawater carbonate chemistry and coral calcification was modelled on ...
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