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 …

Review of wave‐driven sediment resuspension and transport in estuaries

MO Green, G Coco - Reviews of Geophysics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Waves are fundamentally important to the physical and biological functioning of estuaries.
Understanding and predicting contaminant transport, development of sedimentary …

Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges

C Boström, SJ Pittman, C Simenstad… - Marine ecology progress …, 2011 - int-res.com
We review the progress made in the emerging field of coastal seascape ecology, ie the
application of landscape ecology concepts and techniques to the coastal marine …

Seagrass landscapes and their effects on associated fauna: a review

C Boström, EL Jackson, CA Simenstad - Estuarine, Coastal and shelf …, 2006 - Elsevier
Seagrasses comprise some of the most heterogeneous landscape structures of shallow-
water estuarine/marine ecosystems in the world. However, while knowledge at the …

The importance of seagrass beds as a habitat for fishery species

EL Jackson, AA Rowden, MJ Attrill… - … and marine biology, 2001 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Seagrass beds are thought to have a fundamental role in maintaining populations of
commercially exploited fish and invertebrate species by providing one or more of the …

Seagrasses, fish, and fisheries

B Gillanders - Seagrasses: biology, ecology and conservation, 2006 - Springer
Seagrass meadows have extremely high primary and secondary productivity and support a
great abundance and diversity of fish and invertebrates. A number of commercially and …

Faunal response to fragmentation in seagrass habitats: implications for seagrass conservation

SS Bell, RA Brooks, BD Robbins, MS Fonseca… - Biological …, 2001 - Elsevier
Fragmentation in seagrass systems results in changes to landscape features that may have
implications for fauna. We examine published studies to identify whether faunal abundance …

Ultra-High-Resolution Mapping of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile Meadows through Acoustic, Optical Data and Object-based Image Classification

SF Rende, A Bosman, R Di Mento, F Bruno… - Journal of Marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this study, we present a framework for seagrass habitat mapping in shallow (5–50 m) and
very shallow water (0–5 m) by combining acoustic, optical data and Object-based Image …

The role of seagrass vegetation and local environmental conditions in shaping benthic bacterial and macroinvertebrate communities in a tropical coastal lagoon

Z Alsaffar, JK Pearman, J Curdia, J Ellis, ML Calleja… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated the influence of seagrass canopies on the benthic biodiversity of bacteria
and macroinvertebrates in a Red Sea tropical lagoon. Changes in abundance, number of …

Linking fish and prawns to their environment: a hierarchical landscape approach

SJ Pittman, CA McAlpine, KM Pittman - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2004 - int-res.com
Little is known about the relative influence of landscape structure on the spatial distribution
and abundance of marine organisms. To address this problem, we applied landscape …