The planetary role of seagrass conservation

RKF Unsworth, LC Cullen-Unsworth, BLH Jones… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Seagrasses are remarkable plants that have adapted to live in a marine environment. They
form extensive meadows found globally that bioengineer their local environments and …

Heavy metal pollution in coastal wetlands: A systematic review of studies globally over the past three decades

C Li, H Wang, X Liao, R **ao, K Liu, J Bai, B Li… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coastal wetlands are ecosystems lying between land and ocean and are subject to inputs of
heavy metals (HMs) from terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric sources. Although the study …

Long‐term declines and recovery of meadow area across the world's seagrass bioregions

JC Dunic, CJ Brown, RM Connolly… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As human impacts increase in coastal regions, there is concern that critical habitats that
provide the foundation of entire ecosystems are in decline. Seagrass meadows face growing …

The global distribution of seagrass meadows

LJ McKenzie, LM Nordlund, BL Jones… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Seagrass meadows globally are under pressure with worldwide loss and degradation, but
there is a growing recognition of the global importance of seagrass ecosystem services …

Recent trend reversal for declining European seagrass meadows

CB de Los Santos, D Krause-Jensen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Seagrass meadows, key ecosystems supporting fisheries, carbon sequestration and coastal
protection, are globally threatened. In Europe, loss and recovery of seagrasses are reported …

Anthropogenic pressures and life history predict trajectories of seagrass meadow extent at a global scale

MP Turschwell, RM Connolly, JC Dunic… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Seagrass meadows are threatened by multiple pressures, jeopardizing the many benefits
they provide to humanity and biodiversity, including climate regulation and food provision …

A review of seagrass ecosystem services: providing nature-based solutions for a changing world

M do Amaral Camara Lima, TF Bergamo, RD Ward… - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, which form extensive meadows in intertidal and
shallow water marine environments. They provide a wide range of ecosystem services …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in Earth observation and machine learning for quantifying blue carbon

TD Pham, NT Ha, N Saintilan, A Skidmore… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves, seagrasses and saltmarshes) are highly productive
coastal habitats, and are considered some of the most carbon-dense ecosystems on Earth …

Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Multi-and hyperspectral classification of soft-bottom intertidal vegetation using a spectral library for coastal biodiversity remote sensing

BFR Davies, P Gernez, A Geraud, S Oiry… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monitoring biodiversity and how anthropogenic pressures impact this is critical, especially as
anthropogenically driven climate change continues to affect all ecosystems. Intertidal areas …