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Seagrass beds are important feeding grounds for thousands of species around the world, and they support this diverse food web in three different ways. Some organisms—primarily large grazers like manatees, dugongs, green sea turtles and geese—eat the living leaves directly, and seagrass forms a major component of their diets.
Seagrass beds form an important nursery habitat for several species of fishes and invertebrates that move to coral reefs and other ecosystems as they mature.
6 Ιουν 2023 · This study provides a review of publications focusing on seagrass ecosystem services provision to identify knowledge gaps and improve our understanding of the use of these habitats as nature-based solutions to societal challenges, such as climate change.
A seagrass meadow or seagrass bed is an underwater ecosystem formed by seagrasses. Seagrasses are marine (saltwater) plants found in shallow coastal waters and in the brackish waters of estuaries. Seagrasses are flowering plants with stems and long green, grass-like leaves.
19 Φεβ 2020 · Seagrass herbivory by macrograzers (i.e., fish) and megagrazers (i.e., turtles and dugongs) are important to maintaining ecosystem function and reproduction in balanced ecosystems (i.e., systems with predators, grazers, and seagrasses) (Tol et al., 2017; Scott et al., 2018).
20 Μαΐ 2022 · Seagrass beds face global decline, and this ecosystem is also shrinking within the Coral Triangle (Orth et al. 2006; Waycott et al. 2009). A total of 72 seagrass species from five distinct families and 16 genera are found around six bioregion areas on the globe, covering almost 266,562 km 2 (Short et al. 2011 ; McKenzie et al. 2020 ).
1 Οκτ 2023 · We used models to quantify spatial variation in the supply of five ecosystem services from seagrass beds, including biodiversity enhancement, nursery habitat, blue carbon storage, recreation, and coastal protection services.
