The genetic component of seagrass restoration: What we know and the way forwards

J Pazzaglia, HM Nguyen, A Santillán-Sarmiento… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Seagrasses are marine flowering plants providing key ecological services and functions in
coasts and estuaries across the globe. Increased environmental changes fueled by human …

Local adaptation in a marine foundation species: Implications for resilience to future global change

K DuBois, KN Pollard, BJ Kauffman… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is multidimensional, with local anthropogenic stressors and global
climate change interacting to differentially impact populations throughout a species' …

Does Warming Enhance the Effects of Eutrophication in the Seagrass Posidonia oceanica?

J Pazzaglia, A Santillán-Sarmiento… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Seagrass meadows are disappearing at rates comparable to those reported for mangroves,
coral reefs, and tropical rainforests. One of the main causes of their decline is the so-called …

Signs of local adaptation by genetic selection and isolation promoted by extreme temperature and salinity in the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica

HM Nguyen, M Ruocco, E Dattolo… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation to local conditions is known to occur in seagrasses; however, knowledge of the
genetic basis underlying this phenomenon remains scarce. Here, we analysed Posidonia …

Predicting seagrass decline due to cumulative stressors

MP Adams, EJY Koh, MP Vilas, CJ Collier… - … Modelling & Software, 2020 - Elsevier
Seagrass ecosystems are increasingly subjected to multiple interacting stressors, making
the consequent trajectories difficult to predict. Here, we present a new process-based model …

Physical disturbance by recovering sea otter populations increases eelgrass genetic diversity

E Foster, J Watson, MA Lemay, MT Tinker, JA Estes… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Most knowledge regarding the role of predators is ecological in nature. Here, we report how
disturbance generated by sea otters (Enhydra lutris) digging for infaunal prey in eelgrass …

Genetic diversity and resilience in benthic marine populations

C Vásquez, RA Quiñones, A Brante… - Revista chilena de …, 2023 - SciELO Chile
Resumen VASQUEZ, Cynthia; QUINONES, Renato A.; BRANTE, Antonio y HERNANDEZ-
MIRANDA, Eduardo. Genetic diversity and resilience in benthic marine populations. Rev …

Charting a course for genetic diversity in the UN Decade of Ocean Science

AI Thomson, FI Archer, MA Coleman… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The health of the world's oceans is intrinsically linked to the biodiversity of the ecosystems
they sustain. The importance of protecting and maintaining ocean biodiversity has been …

Bivalve facilitation mediates seagrass recovery from physical disturbance in a temperate estuary

SE Donaher, CJ Baillie, CS Smith, YS Zhang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid global degradation of coastal habitats can be attributed to anthropogenic activities
associated with coastal development, aquaculture, and recreational surface water use …

[HTML][HTML] Seagrass macrobenthic biodiversity does not vary in conformity with a leaky-lagoonal confinement gradient

RSK Barnes - Marine Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Coastal lagoon ecology often changes on progression from the open, well-flushed mouth
region to the depositional zone furthest from the open sea. This is generally considered …