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 …

1. Inland wetlands constitute ecological islands of aquatic habitat often isolated by huge
areas of non‐suitable terrestrial habitats. Although most aquatic organisms lack the capacity …

There have been increasing attempts to reverse habitat degradation through active
restoration, but few large-scale successes are reported to guide these efforts. Here, we …

Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, are widely distributed along temperate and tropical
coastlines of the world. Seagrasses have key ecological roles in coastal ecosystems and …

Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Larrondo 1281, Coquimbo,
ChileCentro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Coquimbo, Chile* E-mail …

The oceans cover the majority of the Earth's surface; they influence our climate and provide
a valuable source of food to billions of people. Yet despite its fundamental impact on our …

Field surveys were conducted in Core and Back Sounds, North Carolina, USA, to relate the
physical setting of seagrass beds, as measured by a wave exposure index (REI), tidal …

Global seagrass losses parallel significant declines observed in corals and mangroves over
the past 50 years. These combined declines have resulted in accelerated global losses to …

Seagrasses comprise some of the most heterogeneous landscape structures of shallow-
water estuarine/marine ecosystems in the world. However, while knowledge at the …

Rafting has been inferred as an important dispersal mechanism in the marine environ-ment
by many authors. The success of rafting depends critically on the availability of suitable …