Human-induced global change is expected to amplify the disease risk for marine biota.
However, the role of disease in the rapid global decline of seagrass is largely unknown …

Overwhelming evidence suggests that seagrass ecosystems are declining around the world.
Pathogens from the genus Labyrinthula have repeatedly been found to cause disease in a …

Microplastics in the ocean function as an artificial microbial reef, with diverse communities of
eukaryotic and bacterial microbiota colonizing its surface. It is not well understood if these …

Aquatic Dicotyledons of North America (Les, 2017) and follows a similar format by providing
a comprehensive overview of the life history, ecology, and systematics of those …

Marine phanerogams are considered biological sentinels or indicators since any
modification in seagrass meadow distribution and coverage signals negative changes in the …

Seagrass meadows form ecologically and economically valuable coastal habitat on every
continental margin except the Antarctic, but their areal extent is declining by approximately 2 …

In 1989, the Biology of Seagrasses: Treatise on the Biology of Seagrasses with Special
Reference to the Australasian Region (edited by Anthony WD Larkum, Scoresby Shepherd …

Many marine pathogens are opportunists, present in the environment, but causing disease
only under certain conditions such as immunosuppression due to environmental stress or …

Like both terrestrial plants and other benthic marine organisms, seagrasses host abundant
and diverse communities of microorganisms. These microbes fundamentally influence …

Marine disease ecology is a growing field of research, particularly for host organisms
negatively impacted by a changing climate and anthropogenic activities. A decrease in …