A framework for the resilience of seagrass ecosystems

RKF Unsworth, CJ Collier, M Waycott, LJ Mckenzie… - Marine pollution …, 2015 - Elsevier
Seagrass ecosystems represent a global marine resource that is declining across its range.
To halt degradation and promote recovery over large scales, management requires a radical …

Identifying knowledge gaps in seagrass research and management: an Australian perspective

PH York, TM Smith, RG Coles, SA McKenna… - Marine environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Seagrass species form important marine and estuarine habitats providing valuable
ecosystem services and functions. Coastal zones that are increasingly impacted by …

Losses and recovery of organic carbon from a seagrass ecosystem following disturbance

PI Macreadie, SM Trevathan-Tackett… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Seagrasses are among the Earth's most efficient and long-term carbon sinks, but coastal
development threatens this capacity. We report new evidence that disturbance to seagrass …

Long‐term trends and resilience of seagrass metabolism: A decadal aquatic eddy covariance study

AC Berger, P Berg, KJ McGlathery… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrass meadows are valued for their ecosystem services, including their role in mitigating
anthropogenic CO2 emissions through 'blue carbon'sequestration and storage. This study …

[PDF][PDF] Seagrass-watch

LJ McKenzie, RL Yoshida, JE Mellors… - Proceeding of a …, 2009 - seagrasswatch.org
Seagrass-Watch is a participatory monitoring program developed in 1998 to provide an
early warning of coastal ecological decline. Anyone can participate in Seagrass-Watch, as it …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in carbon metabolism and dissolved organic carbon fluxes on seagrass patches (Halodule wrightii) with different ages in Southern Gulf of California

LG Egea, CJ Pérez-Estrada, R Jiménez-Ramos… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows are highly dynamic, particularly in sites where extreme climatological
events may produce a mosaic of patches with different ages. This study evaluates the …

Seagrasses and macroalgae: importance, vulnerability and impacts

PI Macreadie, J Jarvis… - … change impacts on …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrasses and macroalgae provide ecosystem services that are imperative to human
survival and well‐being. The provision of habitat for fisheries species is one of these …

Genetic diversity and resilience in benthic marine populations

C Vásquez, RA Quiñones, A Brante… - Revista Chilena de …, 2023 - Springer
Background Understanding the mechanisms behind resilience has become more relevant in
the last decades, due to the increasing and intensifying disturbances from natural and …

Declines of seagrasses in a tropical harbour, North Queensland, Australia, are not the result of a single event

S McKenna, J Jarvis, T Sankey, C Reason, R Coles… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
A recent paper inferred that all seagrass in Cairns Harbour, tropical north-eastern Australia,
had undergone 'complete and catastrophic loss' as a result of tropical cyclone Yasi in 2011 …

Highly disturbed populations of seagrass show increased resilience but lower genotypic diversity

RM Connolly, TM Smith, PS Maxwell, AD Olds… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The response of seagrass systems to a severe disturbance provides an opportunity to
quantify the degree of resilience in different meadows, and subsequently to test whether …