Seagrass communities in Vietnam are important primary producers in the coastal
environment and play a key role in shoreline protection as a bioshield in the country. In the …

Blue carbon ecosystems are diverse and highly productive coastal habitats (mangroves,
seagrasses, and tidal marshes) that sequester large quantities of carbon and provide a suite …

In Japan, fishers plant trees in upstream watersheds, known as “fishery forests,” to improve
coastal environments and secure fishery production. Based on observation and experience …

Seagrass meadows have the potential to sequester large amounts of organic carbon (OC) in
underlying sediments as detrital OC. This ecosystem function of seagrass meadows …

The first life on Earth evolved in the ocean about 3.5 billion years ago. Photosynthetic
organisms, which first appeared in the ocean, eventually changed the oxygen and carbon …

Coastal seas are composed of relatively independent ecosystems, such as estuaries, rocky
shores, mangroves, and coral reefs. Such individual ecosystems (IEs) are linked closely to …

The reestablishment of seagrass vegetation is a vital part of recovering coastal marine
ecosystem services. Historically the Hinase area was a famous for the fishing by coastal …

The recent discovery of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (also known as Magallana gigas)
spatfields in a Mediterranean lagoon intensely exploited for shellfish farming (Thau lagoon) …

This review on Sustainability covers selected 2018 publications on the focus of
sustainability. It is divided into the following sections:(a) Water quantity;(b) Water quality;(c) …

Background Coastal ecosystems are blue infrastructures that support coastal resources and
also aquaculture. Seagrass meadows, one of coastal ecosystems, provide substrates for …