[HTML][HTML] Seagrass meadows in a globally changing environment

RKF Unsworth, M van Keulen, RG Coles - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows are valuable ecosystem service providers that are now being lost
globally at an unprecedented rate, with water quality and other localised stressors putting …

Environmental drivers of flowering in the genus Zostera and spatio‐temporal variability of Zostera muelleri flowering in Australasia

MU Lekammudiyanse, MI Saunders… - Aquatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Seed‐based seagrass restoration strategies demand precise understanding of the
environmental drivers influencing flowering. Flowering varies across diverse spatial and …

New Insights into Different Reproductive Effort and Sexual Recruitment Contribution between Two Geographic Zostera marina L. Populations in Temperate China

S Xu, P Wang, Y Zhou, X Zhang, R Gu, X Liu… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Seagrasses are important components of global coastal ecosystems, and the eelgrass
Zostera marina L. is widely distributed along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in the temperate …

The perilous state of seagrass in the British Isles

BL Jones, RKF Unsworth - Royal Society Open Science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Seagrass ecosystems face widespread threat from reduced water quality, coastal
development and poor land use. In recent decades, their distribution has declined rapidly …

Chronically elevated sea surface temperatures revealed high susceptibility of the eelgrass Zostera marina to winter and spring warming

Y Sawall, M Ito, C Pansch - Limnology and Oceanography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While it is well known that severe marine summer heatwaves can cause acute and dramatic
die‐offs of seagrass meadows, the effect of trans‐seasonal warming and winter/spring …

[HTML][HTML] Reproductive ecology of Zostera marina L.(eelgrass) across varying environmental conditions

BM Vercaemer, MA Scarrow, B Roethlisberger… - Aquatic Botany, 2021 - Elsevier
Sexual reproduction is critical to the resilience of seagrass beds impacted by habitat
degradation or environmental changes, as robust seed banks allow new shoots to establish …

Long-term variability in the flowering phenology and intensity of the temperate seagrass Zostera marina in response to regional sea warming

LZ Qin, SH Kim, HJ Song, HG Kim, Z Suonan… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The growth and reproduction of the marine seagrass foundation species Zostera marina
(eelgrass) are threatened by rising sea surface temperatures (SSTs). After both natural and …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal plant development and meadow structure of Irish and southern Spanish seagrass populations

T Azcárate-García, P Beca-Carretero, CL Cara… - Aquatic Botany, 2022 - Elsevier
Zostera marina and Z. noltii are two dominant meadow-forming seagrass species in
temperate regions in the northern hemisphere. Seagrass meadows provide several goods …

Drivers and limits of phenotypic responses in vulnerable seagrass populations: Zostera marina in the intertidal

A Boyé, O Gauthier, R Becheler, V Le Garrec… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intertidal seagrass meadows are exposed to both marine and terrestrial environmental
constraints. Seagrass vulnerability to climate changes in these highly dynamic and thermally …

Influence of Regional Water Temperature Variability on the Flowering Phenology and Sexual Reproduction of the Seagrass Zostera marina in Korean Coastal Waters

LZ Qin, SH Kim, HJ Song, Z Suonan, H Kim… - Estuaries and …, 2020 - Springer
Increasing sea surface temperature due to global climate change is a major threat to the
growth and survival of many temperate seagrasses, while cold-water upwelling can …