Seagrass restoration is possible: insights and lessons from Australia and New Zealand

YM Tan, O Dalby, GA Kendrick, J Statton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Seagrasses are important marine ecosystems situated throughout the world's coastlines.
They are facing declines around the world due to global and local threats such as rising …

Coupled biogeochemical cycles: eutrophication and hypoxia in temperate estuaries and coastal marine ecosystems

R Howarth, F Chan, DJ Conley… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Nutrient fluxes to coastal areas have risen in recent decades, leading to widespread hypoxia
and other ecological damage, particularly from nitrogen (N). Several factors make N more …

Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century

KA Krumhansl, DK Okamoto… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Kelp forests (Order Laminariales) form key biogenic habitats in coastal regions of temperate
and Arctic seas worldwide, providing ecosystem services valued in the range of billions of …

Severe impacts of brown tides caused by Sargassum spp. on near-shore Caribbean seagrass communities

BI Van Tussenbroek, HAH Arana… - Marine pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
From mid-2014 until the end of 2015, the Mexican Caribbean coast experienced a massive
influx of drifting Sargassum spp. that accumulated on the shores, resulting in build-up of …

Accelerating loss of seagrasses across the globe threatens coastal ecosystems

M Waycott, CM Duarte… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Coastal ecosystems and the services they provide are adversely affected by a wide variety
of human activities. In particular, seagrass meadows are negatively affected by impacts …

The fundamental role of ecological feedback mechanisms for the adaptive management of seagrass ecosystems–a review

PS Maxwell, JS Eklöf, MM van Katwijk… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrass meadows are vital ecosystems in coastal zones worldwide, but are also under
global threat. One of the major hurdles restricting the success of seagrass conservation and …

The importance of dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) in the nitrogen cycle of coastal ecosystems

AE Giblin, CR Tobias, B Song, N Weston, GT Banta… - Oceanography, 2013 - JSTOR
Until recently, it was believed that biological assimilation and gaseous nitrogen (N) loss
through denitrification were the two major fates of nitrate entering or produced within most …

Effects of natural and human-induced hypoxia on coastal benthos

LA Levin, W Ekau, AJ Gooday, F Jorissen… - …, 2009 - bg.copernicus.org
Coastal hypoxia (defined here as< 1.42 ml L− 1; 62.5 μM; 2 mg L− 1, approx. 30% oxygen
saturation) develops seasonally in many estuaries, fjords, and along open coasts as a result …

The global Hangenberg Crisis (Devonian–Carboniferous transition): review of a first-order mass extinction

SI Kaiser, M Aretz, RT Becker - Geological Society, London …, 2016 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The global Hangenberg Crisis near the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary (DCB)
represents a mass extinction that is of the same scale as the so-called 'Big Five'first-order …

Habitat characteristics provide insights of carbon storage in seagrass meadows

I Mazarrasa, J Samper-Villarreal, O Serrano… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows provide multiple ecosystem services, yet they are among the most
threatened ecosystems on earth. Because of their role as carbon sinks, protection and …