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First Observations of a Deep‐Water Seagrass Meadow (Thalassodendron ciliatum) on an Oceanic Reef in the Southern Coral Sea Marine Park, Australia [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTropical seagrass meadows are important global marine ecosystems that provide critical ecosystem goods and services. The extent of global seagrass meadows is mostly mapped from shallow coastal regions and not well known or sampled from deeper offshore ...
G. F. Galbraith +3 more
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Global seagrass carbon stock variability and emissions from seagrass loss [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSeagrass ecosystems are recognized for their capacity to sequester and store organic carbon, but there is large variability in soil organic carbon stocks associated with plant traits and environmental conditions, making the quantification and scaling of ...
Johannes R. Krause +18 more
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Local Victory: Assessing Interspecific Competition in Seagrass From a Trait-Based Perspective
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Tropical seagrass meadows are formed by an array of seagrass species that share the same space. Species sharing the same plot are competing for resources, namely light and inorganic nutrients, which results in the capacity of some species to preempt ...
Agustín Moreira-Saporiti +6 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Seagrasses form vast meadows of structurally complex habitat that support faunal communities with greater numbers of species and individuals than nearby unstructured habitats.
Savanna C. Barry +5 more
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Effectiveness of Moorings Constructed from Rope in Reducing Impacts to Seagrass
Oceans, 2022 Seagrass meadows commonly reside in shallow sheltered coastal environments which are typically safe havens for mooring boats. There is evidence from around the globe that the use of common swinging chain moorings leads to halos of bare sediment in ...
Richard K. F. Unsworth +7 more
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Seagrass Structural Traits Drive Fish Assemblages in Small-Scale Fisheries
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Seagrasses – a group of foundation species in coastal ecosystems – provide key habitat for diverse and abundant faunal assemblages and support numerous ecosystem functions and services.
Benjamin L. Jones +6 more
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Drone-Based Characterization of Seagrass Habitats in the Tropical Waters of Zanzibar
Remote Sensing, 2022 Unmanned automatic systems (UAS) are increasingly being applied as an alternative to more costly time-consuming traditional methods for mapping and monitoring marine shallow-water ecosystems.
Idrissa Yussuf Hamad +3 more
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Diversity, 2020 Consumer communities play an important role in maintaining ecosystem structure and function. In seagrass systems, algal regulation by mesograzers provides a critical maintenance function which promotes seagrass productivity.
Luke Hoffmann +3 more
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Tropicalization of seagrass macrophytodetritus accumulations and associated food webs
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Seagrass, systems export significant amounts of their primary production as large detritus (i.e. macrophytodetritus). Accumulations of exported macrophytodetritus (AEM) are found in many areas in coastal environment.
Gilles Lepoint, Glenn A. Hyndes
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Seagrasses are threatened worldwide due to anthropogenic and natural disturbances disrupting the multiple feedbacks needed to maintain these ecosystems. If the disturbance is severe enough, seagrass systems may undergo a regime shift to a degraded system
Jonathan R. Rodemann +13 more
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