In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic
macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food …

Global change has converted many structurally complex and ecologically and economically
valuable coastlines to bare substrate. In the structural habitats that remain, climate-tolerant …

Blue carbon–the carbon stored and sequestered in mangrove forests, seagrass meadows,
and tidal salt marshes–is considered a cost-effective means to achieve positive climate …

Global losses over the 20th century placed seagrass ecosystems among the most
threatened ecosystems in the world, with eutrophication, and associated deterioration of the …

Seagrasses have been widely recognized for their ecosystem services, but traditional
seagrass monitoring approaches emphasizing ground and aerial observations are costly …

Although seagrass ecosystems are valued for the services they provide, anthropogenic
impacts have led to global declines in seagrass area. South Florida harbors one of the most …

Seagrasses are long-lived, clonal plants that can integrate fluctuations in environmental
conditions over a range of temporal scales, from days to years, and can act as barometers of …

According to the EU Habitats directive, the Water Framework Directive, and the Marine
Strategy Framework Directive, member states are required to map, monitor, and evaluate …

The goal of this perspective is to review how seagrass research has evolved over the past
half century to our current state of knowledge. We review how our knowledge of seagrass …

At least 18 major storms have struck the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean in the past 50 yr
including Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that passed over extensive seagrass beds …