Context Seagrasses are submerged marine plants that have been declining globally at
increasing rates. Natural resource managers rely on monitoring programs to detect and …

Florida's seagrasses are ecologically important marine environments which have suffered
major degradation caused by increasing anthropogenic pressures. A 2011 seagrass die-off …

The spatial and temporal dynamics of seagrasses have been well studied at the leaf to patch
scales, however, the link to large spatial extent landscape and population dynamics is still …

Seagrass restoration requires information on a range of factors including site environmental
conditions, appropriate planting techniques, and the identification of sites most likely to …

A predictive model for seagrass bed coverage (presence/absence at 1‐m resolution) and
ecological attributes of the bed, such as biomass and shoot density, would be a valuable …

Geographical Information Systems and the availability of digital data acquired through
governmental agencies provide an opportunity to quantify and detect spatial patterns at …

In support of the Texas Seagrass Monitoring Program, remote sensing research is underway
to evaluate automated methods for monitoring landscape changes in seagrass beds related …

Many indices are available for assessment of spatial patterns in landscape ecology, yet
there is presently no consensus about which ones effectively quantify habitat fragmentation …

Habitat complexity plays a critical role in shaping biotic assemblages and ecosystem
processes. While the impacts of large differences in habitat complexity are often well …

Field surveys were conducted in Core and Back Sounds, North Carolina, USA, to relate the
physical setting of seagrass beds, as measured by a wave exposure index (REI), tidal …